ABSTRACT
Drawing on experts in family and kinship, education, magic and religion, and economics, Jean Galap explained that the seminar would provide students with insights into the range of areas in which Antillean and French cultures clash, at the expense of the former. Government social policy was organized around the need to address the inequalities of class to the exclusion of all other social differences. Activists in the Antillean community, along with other immigrant activists, demonstrated the need for policymakers to attend to the le culturel as a source of social division in France. In France, since the end of the nineteenth century, social policy has been based on the assumption that the nation must be represented as both culturally homogeneous and structurally diverse. Antilleans are also able to take advantage of the French state's increased reliance on non-profit associations in the administration of social policy.
