Colonial reprisals restored European Algerians’ race prejudice and arrogance.
Evidence
The Europeans who, as a result of certain military actions on the part of the Algerian National Army in favor of the struggle of the Algerian people, had soft-pedaled their race prejudice and their insolence, recovered their old arrogance, their traditional contempt. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 191
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Algerians read the retreat of colonialism from settler fear and anger; Fear of castration conditioned brutal French reprisals against Algerians.; Algerian colonization conscripted ordinary European settlers into the repressive system — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 187 (+4 more)
Related
- Algerians read the retreat of colonialism from settler fear and anger (similarity 0.89)
- Algerian colonization conscripted ordinary European settlers into the repressive system (similarity 0.85)
- Pied noir settlers related to Algerians through indifference and paternalism (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim (similarity 0.82)
- Colonial racism led some humiliated Jews to identify with their humiliators against Algerians (similarity 0.81)
- The revolution escalated from colonial grievance to racial battle to antislavery war (similarity 0.81)
- Algerians credited France’s Algerian achievements as benefiting French settlers, not natives. (similarity 0.81)
- Fear of castration conditioned brutal French reprisals against Algerians. (similarity 0.80)
- The European’s impulse to unveil Algerian women is an act of possession (similarity 0.80)
- French colonialism occupied the Algerian individual’s self, not merely the territory (similarity 0.79)
- Algeria’s European settlers feared expulsion more than anything else (similarity 0.79)
- Algeria’s Europeans grew conscious of Algerian nationality during the Revolution (similarity 0.79)
- The national conflict canalized Algerian anger that had previously surfaced as common crime (similarity 0.79)
- Algerian revolutionary leaders weighed three distinct political and moral concerns against retaliation. (similarity 0.79)
- Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim
#corroborates(0.60) - Pied noir racism toward Algerians was rooted in indifference rather than overt hatred
#contradicts(0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 161 - Brutal French reprisals backfired by deepening Algerian hatred of France
#expands(0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 525 - Pied noir settlers related to Algerians through indifference and paternalism
#contradicts(0.55)