In Search of the Black “Ghetto:” Racial and Spatial Stigma in Tunisia
Résumé
In a blog post published in French in 2013, blogger Ahmed Amri described Gabès governorate, which lies around 400 kilometers south of Tunis, as one of “the most colored zone[s] in Tunisia.” He noted the social marginalization faced by Black minorities in Tunisia and went on to call the neighborhood of Gahbaya in Gabès city, the capital of Gabès governorate, a “ghetto” where “a high density of Blacks” live. Amri’s description of Gahbaya neighborhood reflects a larger discourse in Tunisia, including among the inhabitants of Gabès city, that constructs Gahbaya as a Black “ghetto.” During my fieldwork over 2021–2022, many residents of Gabès city portrayed Gahbaya and its people as uniformly Black, poor, dangerous, aggressive, and lacking in morality. Both the place and its people were spoken about interchangeably as if they formed the same denigrated urban object. [First paragraph]
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