Colonized peoples’ revolts in Africa intensified France’s interwar racial conservatism

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial powers use colored troops to suppress other colonized people’s revolts; After World War I French doctrine shifted from eradicating institutions to associating African elites.; Colonial revolts and knowledge of African cultures reshaped French civilizing doctrine. (+18 more)

Related

• French state policy in the 1920s actively sought racial regeneration of France (similarity 0.88)
• African colonial demands shaped metropolitan France’s racist turn, not just French domestic trends (similarity 0.87)
• French officials shifted naturalization policy toward racial separation in the 1920s (similarity 0.87)
• West African revolts forced Dakar to reverse its assimilationist policies (similarity 0.86)
• World War I and right-wing politics drove French racism into colonial policy (similarity 0.86)
• World War I drove French West Africa toward a more conservative civilizing mission (similarity 0.85)
• Centuries of colonial recruitment as a human reservoir pushed West Africans to revolt (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial exclusion practices reinforced discrimination against immigrants, Jews, and women in France (similarity 0.84)
• French colonial policy racialized in the 1920s, retreating from assimilation toward racial separation. (similarity 0.84)
• French racism endured because it cooperated with progressive, liberal values (similarity 0.84)
• Interwar French racial regeneration emphasis grew from colonial challenges (similarity 0.84)
• World War I triggered the first large-scale revolts against French colonial rule (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial exclusion practices enabled broader French domestic discrimination until 1962 (similarity 0.83)
• Postwar revolts pushed French administrators toward respecting African institutions. (similarity 0.83)
• World War I weakened republican ideology and shifted colonial policy toward conservatism (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• France’s colonial recruiting pushed African populations to revolt #corroborates (0.60)
• Colonial exclusion practices reinforced discrimination against immigrants, Jews, and women in France #expands (0.50) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 886