Transcript of Interview of Louis-Georges Tin by Daniel Sabbagh

Interview Transcript / January 2010 / Available in French and in English

This is the transcript of a video interview between Louis Georges Tin, Vice President of the Conseil Représentatif des Associations Noires (translated: Representative Council of Black Associations), and Daniel Sabbagh, Senior Research Fellow at CERI – Sciences Po and scientific advisor to the Equality of Opportunity Program. This conversation was part of a series of interviews produced by the French-American Foundation between Daniel Sabbagh and five French experts on the theme of equal opportunity.

The following themes were discussed:

• Universalism and "Communitarianism" in Republican France
• The Emergence of the CRAN and the Lifting of a Taboo
• The CRAN and the United States
• Defining Black Identity
• The Makeup and Internal Structure of the CRAN
• The West Indian/African Divide
• From Gay Rights Advocacy to the CRAN
• "Diversity Statistics"
• "Diversity Statistics" and Second-Generation North-African Immigrants
• The CRAN's Proposals

Video excerpts from the interview are on view here in the Video Library.

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