City-level apartheid emerged in Algeria only at war’s end
Evidence
On 24 February, following the killing by the F.L.N. of a Bab-el-Oued taxi-driver, a pied noir mob trapped a score of Muslim workers in a cul-de-sac and stabbed and beat them to death. Increasingly a kind of apartheid, which had never previously existed, was growing up in the cities as Muslim workers declined to enter the European quarters — and vice versa. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1578
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to South African apartheid — the author explicitly borrows the term; worth comparing the two settler-colonial trajectories. — connects to: De facto residential segregation by community emerged in Algiers cities during the terror.; OAS leaders dreamed of a South Africa-style apartheid Algeria. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1481
- QUESTION: The claim that segregation had never previously existed challenges French colonial myths — worth verifying against other sources on pre-war Algiers.
Related
- De facto residential segregation by community emerged in Algiers cities during the terror. (similarity 0.91)
- OAS leaders dreamed of a South Africa-style apartheid Algeria. (similarity 0.82)
- Algerian racial structure sat between apartheid and Brazilian miscegenation. (similarity 0.80)
- Paris judged Algiers as the gravest mob-seizure threat since 1934 (similarity 0.78)