Colonial exclusion practices enabled broader French domestic discrimination until 1962

Evidence

What was true of the empire’s impact on the culture of the metropole in the 192o’s must be true in other decades as well. Republican France has had a long history of partially and sometimes fully excluding certain groups from the larger democratic polity in the twentieth century-immigrants, Jews, and women, as well as colonial subjects, come to mind. The fact that until 1962 France had an empire in which such exclusion was the norm suggests that the practice of colonialism may well have reinforced and enabled these other forms of discrimination in the metropole in ways that have not yet been recognized. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 886

Categorization

• SEED: A strong essay angle: how the empire as a ‘laboratory of exclusion’ normalized discrimination against immigrants, Jews, and women within republican France itself.