French law’s colorblindness coexists with pervasive raced policing and inequity.

Evidence

Race may not exist on the books in France, but its racial project is alive and well for all to see, in living color, in the streets of Saint-Denis and Bondy and banlieues beyond. Not even the bright lights from the center of the city can overshadow the pervasive racism that wears the uniform of law enforcement, or the racial inequities dwelling in the neighborhoods. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 774

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the prior paragraph’s 1972 law; the metaphor of race denied on the books but enacted on the street could enrich the reader’s synthesis of national cases. — connects to: Antiracist victories across three eras were each defused by formal legal colorblindness — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 127