ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the manifestations of racism in France in public opinion, in the discourse of the extreme-Right, and in a particular form of institutional racism. It examines the responses to racism, both through anti-discrimination policies and legislation and through grass-roots mobilisation against racism. One of the clearest arguments in support of the thesis that there has been a reemergence of racism in France in recent years has been the growing success of the Front National. The progression and even banalisation of the racist ideas of the Front National could not have taken place in a vacuum, and some commentators point to the racism inherent in France's institutional structures as the context within which the overt racism of the extreme-Right can manifest itself. Taguieff argues that anti-racism in France has been unsuccessful because anti-racists have failed to define racism correctly.
