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Rafik Chekkat

Lawyer and essayist.

Books France. Class Struggle vs. Identity Struggles? Rafik Chekkat · March 2021 Sociologists Stephane Beaud and Gérard Noiriel castigate academics who espouse the “racial cause”. But by entertaining fuzzy notions in the midst of the campaign in France against so-called Islamo-leftism, their book is more polemical than scientific.
It’s a sequence of events that has sadly (…)
Black lives scorned: The Wretched of the Maghreb Rafik Chekkat · August 2020 Voices from the Arab world, like that of Palestinian actress Maryam Abou Khaled, have touched off a debate over the racism suffered by the Black population of North Africa and the persistent legacy of centuries of Arabo-Berber slave-trading. While Franz Fanon wrote little on the subject, his (…)