Algerian colonization conscripted ordinary European settlers into the repressive system

Evidence

In Algeria, where European settlers are numerous and where the territorial militia lost no time in enrolling the postman, the nurse and the grocer in the repressive system, the men who directed the struggle faced an absolutely new situation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 187

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s question: civil-society permeation of the colonial apparatus, the causal way colonialism latched onto European minorities in Algeria. — connects to: Algeria’s European settlers feared expulsion more than anything else; The European settler minority is the central obstacle to ending the Algerian war; Pied noir settlers related to Algerians through indifference and paternalism (+5 more)

Related

• Algerians read the retreat of colonialism from settler fear and anger (similarity 0.86)
• Algeria’s European settlers feared expulsion more than anything else (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial reprisals restored European Algerians’ race prejudice and arrogance. (similarity 0.85)
• Algeria’s Europeans grew conscious of Algerian nationality during the Revolution (similarity 0.82)
• Pied noir settlers related to Algerians through indifference and paternalism (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim (similarity 0.81)
• The European settler minority is the central obstacle to ending the Algerian war (similarity 0.80)
• Both the old paternalist and the coercive forms of colonial Algeria were dying. (similarity 0.80)
• European settlers actively aided the F.L.N. and died for the Algerian cause (similarity 0.80)
• French settlers never exceeded thirteen percent of Algeria’s population (similarity 0.79)
• French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.79)
• European settlers’ aggressive demands for minority rights dissolved when assured of belonging (similarity 0.79)
• Most French Algerian settlers were actually Spanish and Italian immigrants. (similarity 0.79)
• One million European settlers held voting power equal to eight million Muslims in Algeria (similarity 0.79)
• By 1917 only a fifth of Algeria’s non-Muslim settlers were French-born. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial reprisals restored European Algerians’ race prejudice and arrogance. #complicates (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 191
• One million European settlers held voting power equal to eight million Muslims in Algeria #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 91