To what extent do the situations or events that young people from working-class neighbourhoods experience constitute shared references? Do they contribute to the construction of a sense of “us”? The workshops conducted with around a hundred young people in ten working class neighbourhoods or towns around the Ile de France region, have shown the importance of the memorial impact of the 2001 and 2015 terrorist attacks, and of football competitions. Although links to the history of working-class areas are tenuous, there are continuities with recent history, through themes of police violence and the struggle against racism and discrimination in the world. Rather than the construction of group identity in the form of “us”, we observe dynamics of multiple identifications, as possible sources for the development of social awareness