Colonial exclusion practices reinforced discrimination against immigrants, Jews, and women in France

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. Another major conclusion of my study is that this cross-fertilization of ideas, habits, and trends between the Republic and the empire existed, and that it deserves more serious attention than it has received. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 886

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: Seed of an intellectual project: tracing how the habit of imperial exclusion primed French society for other exclusions from the metropole.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 886
• XREF: connects to: French officials shifted naturalization policy toward racial separation in the 1920s; French state policy in the 1920s actively sought racial regeneration of France; France stiffened citizenship requirements by demanding proof of cultural Frenchness (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• Colonial paranoia about French emissaries produced a decree expelling immigrants #corroborates (0.60)
• France’s segregationist native courts reflected the ideology of the colonial era #corroborates (0.60)
• France pursued assimilation and association simultaneously in its colonies. #qualifies (0.40)
• French colonial law originally granted freed people full citizenship without racial distinction #contradicts (0.40)