African citizenship demands directly triggered colonial officials’ retreat from assimilation

Evidence

But statements made by both Dakar and Paris in the 192o’s indicate that colonial officials were less sure that any African would ever be worthy of the rights of citizenship the Third Republic had once promised. Such doubts were a conscious response to Diagne’s successful campaign in 1915 for originaire citizenship, and continuing demands by other evolues for a recognition of comparable rights. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 573

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Directly on the reader’s core thread: African agency (Diagne’s 1915 originaire campaign) caused French officials to harden the racialized boundary of citizenship - an example of colonized action reshaping metropolitan policy.

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