%0 Journal Article
%T Reframing race in the Maghreb
%A Corbin Treacy
%J French Cultural Studies
%@ 1740-2352
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0957155817738675
%X Clandestine migration across the Mediterranean is often discussed for its agitating effects on Europe¡¯s racial anxieties; less acknowledged is the growth of intra-African racism in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. Officials in these countries have increasingly demonised sub-Saharan Africans who arrive in the Maghreb en route to Europe, and now even black North Africans describe a climate of heightened racial tension. This article analyses the ways in which black Africans are represented in the contemporary Maghreb. Specifically, I look at print and on-line journalism, novels and films that foreground questions of race to argue that Maghrebi journalists, social media activists, authors and filmmakers are critiquing racism and exposing its neo-colonial underpinnings. Their work is calling for a disciplinary realignment in North African cultural studies that focuses the field as much on ¡®Africa¡¯ as it does on ¡®North¡¯
%K Merzak Allouache
%K Maghreb
%K migration
%K pan-Africanism
%K racism
%K Abdellah Ta£¿a
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0957155817738675