Soustelle’s integration policy recognized Algeria’s distinct personality while keeping it French

Evidence

Then Soustelle introduced a new concept: “This means that a choice has been made, and this choice is called ‘integration’. It is to make Algeria each day more completely a province, different from the others, certainly, but fully French.” Elaborating, later, on the difference between his new policy of “integration” and the old Blum—Viollette ideal of “assimilation”, Soustelle explained that it was much the more “realist”; that it recognised the original “personality” of Algeria; that, in economic terms, it aimed at sweeping away “obsolete legacies of an imaginary autonomy affording Algeria no other privilege than that of her misery”; and that, in political terms, it was to be based upon the “immutable equality of all its inhabitants”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 343 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Soustelle’s integration policy differed from Blum-Viollette assimilation by granting Algeria its own personality. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 343; Soustelle’s integration program paired military control with sweeping social and economic reform — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 344

Related

• Soustelle’s integration policy differed from Blum-Viollette assimilation by granting Algeria its own personality. (similarity 0.96)
• Soustelle’s integration program dismantled the two-college system and communes mixtes (similarity 0.89)
• Soustelle’s integration program paired military control with sweeping social and economic reform (similarity 0.88)
• Post-independence Arabization made French integrationist dreams seem never realistically possible (similarity 0.83)
• Wartime Algeria indelibly shaped the post-1962 regime. (similarity 0.82)
• Soustelle’s moderate third path was squeezed by both sides (similarity 0.82)
• Wartime Algeria’s traits persisted in Boumedienne’s postwar single-party dictatorship. (similarity 0.81)
• Soustelle predicted France would lose Algeria on the home front, not militarily. (similarity 0.81)
• Interdependence forced reconciliation between France and Algeria despite violence. (similarity 0.81)
• Boumedienne’s Algeria rejected the personality cult common in postcolonial Arab states (similarity 0.81)
• The Constantine Plan proposed deep economic integration of Algeria with France (similarity 0.80)
• Integration would have demographically swamped metropolitan France (similarity 0.80)
• Francisation destroyed Algeria’s native political cadres, leaving no negotiating partners. (similarity 0.80)
• Integration was feasible in 1936 but a delusion by 1958 (similarity 0.80)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Soustelle’s integration policy differed from Blum-Viollette assimilation by granting Algeria its own personality. #expands (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 343