French racism endured because it cooperated with progressive, liberal values

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

In Algeria, however, there was no form of segregation so overt as apartheid, or “Jim Crow” laws on buses; on the other hand, there was nothing resembling the miscegenation of Brazil, or even Mozambique. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 160 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: French republican civilizing policies were fundamentally racist in practice; French state policy in the 1920s actively sought racial regeneration of France; Colonial exclusion practices reinforced discrimination against immigrants, Jews, and women in France — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 886 (+3 more)

Related

• Algerian colonial racism was neither institutionalized like apartheid nor miscegenated like Brazil (similarity 0.85)
• French state policy in the 1920s actively sought racial regeneration of France (similarity 0.85)
• Colonized peoples’ revolts in Africa intensified France’s interwar racial conservatism (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial exclusion practices reinforced discrimination against immigrants, Jews, and women in France (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial exclusion practices enabled broader French domestic discrimination until 1962 (similarity 0.83)
• French universalist values paradoxically sustained the colonial empire they contradicted (similarity 0.82)
• French officials shifted naturalization policy toward racial separation in the 1920s (similarity 0.81)
• French republican civilizing policies were fundamentally racist in practice (similarity 0.81)
• Algerian racial structure sat between apartheid and Brazilian miscegenation. (similarity 0.80)
• African colonial demands shaped metropolitan France’s racist turn, not just French domestic trends (similarity 0.80)
• French failures in West Africa revived racism and redefined their civilizing mission (similarity 0.80)
• Polygenism justified colonial intermarriage bans and mixed-race discrimination (similarity 0.79)
• French colonial policy racialized in the 1920s, retreating from assimilation toward racial separation. (similarity 0.79)
• French colonial economic premises persist today as development economics and enduring racism (similarity 0.79)
• Early colonial advocates endorsed racial intermarriage but later abandoned it (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial exclusion practices reinforced discrimination against immigrants, Jews, and women in France #exemplifies (0.55) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 886
• Algerian colonial racism was neither institutionalized like apartheid nor miscegenated like Brazil #qualifies (0.40) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 160