BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Sociology Department's Symposium Series welcomes Jean Beama n\, associate professor of sociology at the City University of New York.Ab stract: Based on years of ethnographic research on France’s present antira cist movement and mobilization against state violence\, Professor Beaman i ntroduces a framework of “suspect citizenship” which demonstrates how ethn oracial minorities are constantly outside of the boundaries of full societ al inclusion. She argues that postcolonial plural societies like France po sition a certain populations as suspect or suspicious\, due to their ethno racial assignment. Professor Beaman examines suspect citizenship at the ne xus between active citizenship\, belonging/non-belonging\, antiracism at a macro level\, and activism against state violence. She considers how cert ain populations are automatically rendered suspicious or suspect by virtue of their ethnoracial assignment on micro and macro levels\, and how this construction of citizenship is not just a postcolonial formation. She disc usses how we can understand how individuals resist their categorization as suspect through examining mobilization against state violence\, as well a s how suspect citizenship exists without state recognition of ethnoracial difference. Suspect citizenship is therefore a framework and mode for unde rstanding and making sense of how colonial hierarchies are maintained in p ostcolonial or neocolonial societies.Jean Beaman (she/her) is associate pr ofessor of sociology in the Ph.D. program at the Graduate Center of the Ci ty University of New York (CUNY)\, and on leave from the University of Cal ifornia\, Santa Barbara. Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuse s on race/ethnicity\, racism\, international migration and state violence in both France and the United States. DTEND:20250408T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T003412Z DTSTART:20250408T193000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-Belonging in Plur al Societies UID:RFCALITEM639141284522962775 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Sociology Department's Symposium Series welcomes Jean Beaman\, associate professor of sociology at the City Unive rsity of New York.

Abstract: Based on years of ethn ographic research on France’s present antiracist movement and mobilization against state violence\, Professor Beaman introduces a framework of “susp ect citizenship” which demonstrates how ethnoracial minorities are constan tly outside of the boundaries of full societal inclusion.

She argue s that postcolonial plural societies like France position a certain popula tions as suspect or suspicious\, due to their ethnoracial assignment. Prof essor Beaman examines suspect citizenship at the nexus between active citi zenship\, belonging/non-belonging\, antiracism at a macro level\, and acti vism against state violence.

She considers how certain populations are automatically rendered suspicious or suspect by virtue of their ethnor acial assignment on micro and macro levels\, and how this construction of citizenship is not just a postcolonial formation. She discusses how we can understand how individuals resist their categorization as suspect through examining mobilization against state violence\, as well as how suspect ci tizenship exists without state recognition of ethnoracial difference.

Suspect citizenship is therefore a framework and mode for understanding and making sense of how colonial hierarchies are maintained in postcoloni al or neocolonial societies.

Jean Beaman (she/her) is associate professor of sociology in the Ph.D. program at the Graduate C enter of the City University of New York (CUNY)\, and on leave from the Un iversity of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research is ethnographic in na ture and focuses on race/ethnicity\, racism\, international migration and state violence in both France and the United States.

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