Abstract
A tall, muscular man with tousled dark brown hair, Abdelkrim met me one afternoon in March of 2009 at a Starbucks in the quartier (neighborhood) of Montparnasse and told me he identifies with Bruce Lee, the Hong Kong–American martial artist and action-film star. “He was too American for the Chinese and too Chinese for Americans,” he explained between sips of his espresso.⁴⁵ Despite his successes, Bruce Lee was caught between American and Chinese cultures, and never considered as belonging to either. Abdelkrim completely relates to this dualism; he too feels that he is too French for Maghrébins and too
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Beaman, J. (2017). North African Origins in and of the French Republic. In Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France (pp. 1–28). University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.39.b
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