Good cops, black cops: ethnicity and solidarity in PJ Saint-Martin

Rosello, Mireille

doi:https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.5.3.79

Rosello, Mireille

Journal of Romance Studies (2005), 5, (3), 79–89.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/jrs.5.3.79
Language: English
Pages: 11

Abstract

Popular television programmes regularly explore what it means to be black in Paris at a time when French society struggles to come to terms with the construction of national and international forms of multiracial relationships. The article focuses on France 2’s police series PJ Saint-Martin and more specifically on its re-articulation of the categories of blackness, origin, Parisianism and community at the beginning of the twenty-first century. By exploring the different roles created for and by black actors, it analyses to what extent they successfully rewrite previously dominant paradigms and stereotypes (the racialized immigrant) and what statements they implicitly or explicitly choose to make about the perceived cultural relevance of emerging conceptual categories such as ‘visible minorities’.

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