Changing French stereotypes of Africans produced changing colonial policies.

Evidence

I930. Subtle changes in French stereotypes of Africans, moreover, had important policy implications for the colonized. It is a final objective of this book, without ever denying the reality of French racism, to understand its particular course and permutations before and after World War I, as well as its ability to coexist unproblematically-at least in the eyes of contemporaries-with republican values in the first place. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 47

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial domination operated by casting Europeans as normative and Africans as other. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 35