State Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Gender and Race

Éric Fassin serves as Professor of Sociology at Université Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis. He taught in the United States from 1989 to 1994, at Brandeis University and NYU. From 1994 to 2012, he was an Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Introduction: Anti-Intellectualism and the Politics of Truth


Chapter 1: Anti-Academic Politics

Introduction 1: Against “gender theory”     

Introduction 2: International solidarity


Chapter 2: Censorship and Cancel Culture

Introduction 1: The politics of censorship

Introduction 2: The polemic against "cancel culture"


Chapter 3: The Return of Race

Introduction 1: Racism and the state

Introduction 2: The racial question


Chapter 4: Anti-Racism and the State

Introduction 1: From racism to anti-racism, and back

Introduction 2: The politics of definition


Conclusion: Democracy and the Intersectional Politics of Mourning


Epilogue: In the First Person


Notes

About the author

Index