Colonial school segregation reclassified privileged natives into separate institutions after 1917

Evidence

Thus in the previously ‘integrated’ lycées Chasseloup-Laubat and Albert Sarraut, sub-standard ‘native sections’ were established in 1917–1918. These ‘native sections’ eventually turned respectively into the Lycée Petrus Ky and the Lycée du Protectorat. (Ibid., pp. 60–63). Nonetheless, a minority of privileged indigènes continued to attend the ‘real French’ lycées (the adolescent Norodom Sihanouk graced Chasseloup-Laubat), while a minority of ‘French’ (mainly Eurasians and natives with French legal status) attended Petrus Ky and its sister institution in Hanoi. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 516

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the split-identity dynamics in H.M. Naqvi’s Home Boy and the class/identity signaling theme from the immodesty essay.