European Algerians numbered only a third of Algiers’ population yet dominated it

Evidence

Yet of its total population of 900,000 only one-third was in fact European. In their different enclaves the two communities coexisted closely together — which, in time of peace, was to provide Algiers with its most fascinating contrasts, and, later, its most savagely bloody collisions. … The squalid, labyrinthine alleys often concealed ancient houses built around open courtyards of great charm. Abutting the Casbah on the other side lay the tenements of the European working class of Bab-el-Oued, so heavily impregnated with Spanish blood that its inhabitants were known collectively as the “Hernandez-and-Perez”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 141

Categorization

• XREF: The two-thirds Muslim majority and close European coexistence foreshadows the communal violence of the war; connects to the reader’s own interest in colony-metropole relations. — connects to: Pied noir ultrac organisations crystallized in early 1956 and dominated Algiers for six years; Europeans were only one-third of Algiers’ 900,000 population yet dominated its cityscape; Oran was the only Algerian city with a European majority population

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• Europeans were only one-third of Algiers’ 900,000 population yet dominated its cityscape (similarity 0.95)
• Oran was the only Algerian city with a European majority population (similarity 0.92)
• Algeria split between Europeanised coast and Muslim-populated mountain interior (similarity 0.82)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.81)
• Pieds noirs faced Europe while Muslim Algerians faced inland Africa (similarity 0.81)
• By 1917 only one in five Algerian Europeans was of true French descent (similarity 0.80)
• French settlers never exceeded thirteen percent of Algeria’s population (similarity 0.80)
• Most Algerian colons were not ethnically French at all. (similarity 0.79)
• By 1917 only a fifth of Algeria’s non-Muslim settlers were French-born. (similarity 0.79)
• Unemployed Muslim migrants flocking to cities were excluded from half of industrial jobs. (similarity 0.78)