Faced with discrimination: how do you keep a cool head?

Les Procès du siècle - Shared struggles

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With Rachida Brahim (sociologist and historian) and Malika Mansouri (psychologist)
Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo
With the participation of Justine Bohbote, heritage curator, in charge of the Sport and Health department at Mucem.

What is the impact of discrimination on mental health? In her book La race tue deux fois. Une histoire des crimes racistes en France (1970-2000), sociologist and historian Rachida Brahim speaks of a “double violence” in racism: the first, purely physical violence is followed by a second, affecting the psychic integrity of the individual. And if racism kills twice, the same applies to class and gender discrimination, and to validism. How can we keep a cool head in the face of discrimination?

  • Rachida Brahim (sociologist, historian)

    Rachida Brahim has a doctorate in sociology and is a historian. She is interested in migratory movements, phenomena of violence and the principle of social justice. In 2021, she published La race tue deux fois. Une histoire des crimes racistes en France (1970-2000), in which she retraces part of the history of racist crimes in France and their political and judicial treatment.

  • Malika Mansouri (psychologist)

    Malika Mansouri is a professor of clinical psychology at Sorbonne Paris Nord University (USPN), Laboratoire UTRPP, and a clinical psychologist working in child protection. She is the author of Révoltes postcoloniales au cœur de l’Hexagone. Voix d’adolescents (PUF, 2013) and numerous articles, as well as co-author of numerous scientific works. She is more specifically interested in what she calls a “clinic of the margins”, the dysfunctional links between parents and babies or between children and adolescents and society; the psychic stakes of silences on individual and collective violence, historical traumas and generational transmissions of violence.

  • Rokhaya Diallo (journalist, author, director)

    Rokhaya Diallo is an award-winning French journalist, author and film-maker. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and the Guardian, and a researcher at the Gender+Justice Initiative Research Center at Georgetown University (Washington). In France, she teaches cultural studies at Paris 1 – Sorbonne and is a columnist for television and radio. Rokhaya Diallo is the author of a dozen books and comic strips, and has made several documentaries. With Grace Ly, she also created “Kiffe Ta Race” (Binge Audio), the first French-language podcast dedicated to racial issues and ranked as one of the best podcasts by Apple. In 2022, Rokhaya Diallo founded W.O.R.D., the first school dedicated to public speaking, with the aim of democratizing access to the public sphere.

With Rachida Brahim (sociologist and historian) and Malika Mansouri (psychologist)
Moderator: Rokhaya Diallo
With the participation of Justine Bohbote, heritage curator, in charge of the Sport and Health department at Mucem.

What is the impact of discrimination on mental health? In her book La race tue deux fois. Une histoire des crimes racistes en France (1970-2000), sociologist and historian Rachida Brahim speaks of a “double violence” in racism: the first, purely physical violence is followed by a second, affecting the psychic integrity of the individual. And if racism kills twice, the same applies to class and gender discrimination, and to validism. How can we keep a cool head in the face of discrimination?

  • Rachida Brahim (sociologist, historian)

    Rachida Brahim has a doctorate in sociology and is a historian. She is interested in migratory movements, phenomena of violence and the principle of social justice. In 2021, she published La race tue deux fois. Une histoire des crimes racistes en France (1970-2000), in which she retraces part of the history of racist crimes in France and their political and judicial treatment.

  • Malika Mansouri (psychologist)

    Malika Mansouri is a professor of clinical psychology at Sorbonne Paris Nord University (USPN), Laboratoire UTRPP, and a clinical psychologist working in child protection. She is the author of Révoltes postcoloniales au cœur de l’Hexagone. Voix d’adolescents (PUF, 2013) and numerous articles, as well as co-author of numerous scientific works. She is more specifically interested in what she calls a “clinic of the margins”, the dysfunctional links between parents and babies or between children and adolescents and society; the psychic stakes of silences on individual and collective violence, historical traumas and generational transmissions of violence.

  • Rokhaya Diallo (journalist, author, director)

    Rokhaya Diallo is an award-winning French journalist, author and film-maker. She is a columnist for the Washington Post and the Guardian, and a researcher at the Gender+Justice Initiative Research Center at Georgetown University (Washington). In France, she teaches cultural studies at Paris 1 – Sorbonne and is a columnist for television and radio. Rokhaya Diallo is the author of a dozen books and comic strips, and has made several documentaries. With Grace Ly, she also created “Kiffe Ta Race” (Binge Audio), the first French-language podcast dedicated to racial issues and ranked as one of the best podcasts by Apple. In 2022, Rokhaya Diallo founded W.O.R.D., the first school dedicated to public speaking, with the aim of democratizing access to the public sphere.