World War I triggered the first large-scale revolts and racial distancing
Evidence
During the war, the Government General discovered that its attempts to engineer social change were not having the anticipated consequences. Instead of the expected loyalty from their subjects, France faced large-scale revolts for the first time since the conquest. In France and the world, the Great War also ushered in new actors, new ideologies, and new fears. These internal and external developments would call many of the liberal aspects of French civilizing rhetoric and policies into question, and encourage a new distancing between colonizer and colonized. In West Africa as in France, a more conservative republicanism would soon show its face. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 490
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Key causal pivot for the reader’s goal: wartime revolts and new ideology shifted the republic toward conservative racism.
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- World War I weakened liberal republican ideology in French colonialism. (similarity 0.83)
- World War I and right-wing politics drove French racism into colonial policy (similarity 0.82)
- World War I drove French West Africa toward a more conservative civilizing mission (similarity 0.81)
- World War I weakened republican ideology and shifted colonial policy toward conservatism (similarity 0.81)
- World War I drove Dakar from transforming Africans toward respecting precolonial aristocracies. (similarity 0.79)
- Postwar French colonial doctrine shifted in response to African resistance. (similarity 0.79)
- Failed prewar policies forced France into a conservative civilizing mission. (similarity 0.79)
- African conscription in WWI triggered a more racialized French colonial policy (similarity 0.79)
- Postwar revolts pushed French administrators toward respecting African institutions. (similarity 0.79)
- Changing French stereotypes of Africans produced changing colonial policies. (similarity 0.79)
- Centuries of colonial recruitment as a human reservoir pushed West Africans to revolt (similarity 0.78)
- Colonized peoples’ revolts in Africa intensified France’s interwar racial conservatism (similarity 0.78)