Workbook
For North African French Families
Banlieue, Belonging, and Building Identity in a Country That Questions Yours
France says liberté, égalité, fraternité. Your family writes what those words mean at home.
For the North African French families — Algerian, Moroccan, Tunisian, and others — navigating the intersection of Maghrebi cultural identity, Islamic faith, banlieue experience, and the French Republican ideal of citizenship that has never fully included them. Families trying to name what being French means when France keeps qualifying it.
The Name It First Experience
Your family is North African and French. France built itself on a promise — and then spent generations applying that promise selectively. Your family has lived inside that selective application. You carry Algeria or Morocco or Tunisia alongside France. This workbook does not ask your family to make peace with that contradiction. It asks you to name — together and on paper — what your family is, what it carries from North Africa, and what The Maghrebi French Family Accord means on your terms. The output is not a political argument. It is a signed family document that belongs to you.
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Sample questions
- What word describes what being North African and French means in your household — and do the generations in your family say it differently?
- When you look at what your family carries from Algeria, Morocco, or Tunisia and what your children are growing up inside in France, what do you notice about the distance — and what has been said about it?
- What would it look like to name what your family is — on your own terms, not France's terms — in a document your family writes together?
Research basis
Cross (1971, 1991) Nigrescence Model adapted to North African French identity / Helms (1990) racial identity statuses / Berry (1997) acculturation strategies / Crenshaw (1989, 1991) intersectionality / Brah (1996) Cartographies of Diaspora applied to Maghrebi diaspora / Hall (1990) Cultural Identity and Diaspora / Khiari (2006) on North African French political identity / Silverstein (2004) Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation / cultural frameworks of Maghrebi cultural identity, North African Islamic practice in France, and banlieue identity formation / Kepel (1987) Les Banlieues de l'Islam applied to French Muslim identity / Sayad (2004) The Suffering of the Immigrant on Algerian French experience / postcolonial French-Algerian identity (Shepard, 2006).
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