Eric Fassin, who teaches at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris), and who is a member of the research center IRIS (Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux) at the CNRS, is a distinguished French public intellectual and sociologist who has written extensively on issues of sexuality and race and their connections in contemporary France and America. His many publications include: Au-delà du pacs (PUF, 1999, with Daniel Borrillo) and Liberté, égalité, sexualités. Actualité politique des questions sexuelles (Belfond / 10/18, Paris, 2004, with Clarisse Fabre), L’Inversion de la question homosexuelle (Editions Amsterdam, 2005). He recently edited (with Didier Fassin) De la question sociale à la question raciale ? Représenter la société française (La découverte, 2006), and he is at work (also with Didier Fassin) on a book tentatively entitled: The Rising Significance of Race in France (University of Chicago Press).
Read Professor Fassin’s article, "The Black Minority in France — Visible and Invisible"
Read Professor Fassin’s recent abstract on "The Rising Significance of Race"
Please click here to read Professor Fassin’s Bellagio Abstract
