Who is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Class

Who is Charlie?: Xenophobia and the New Middle Class

In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberté, égalité, fraternité. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single cry of ‘Je suis Charlie’?In this probing new book, Emmanuel Todd investigates the cartography and sociology of the three to four million who marched in Paris and across…

Link http://sharpbook.net/books/who-is-charlie-xenophobia-and-the-new-middle-class

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