Empire on the Seine : the policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975 /
The origins of contemporary tensions between police and minorities in France lie in the history of race and empire. The metropole and the colony dynamically co-developed a policing regime over the course of the nineteenth and through the late twentieth century to manage colonial and racial differenc...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Oxford studies in modern European history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The origins of contemporary tensions between police and minorities in France lie in the history of race and empire. The metropole and the colony dynamically co-developed a policing regime over the course of the nineteenth and through the late twentieth century to manage colonial and racial difference. With the North African community emerging as a sizable and durable presence in Paris after World War I, this policing became a key state practice in imagining and administering the immigrant population. Despite the French state's current reluctance to use race as an official category, racial thought and racial targets animated police services, social services, and urban planning schemes from the 1920s until the 1970s. Police archival records, reports from colonial officials, urban planning and housing studies, and the records of French social workers and immigrant associations reveal that colonial racism was integrated into the policing of Paris and that architecture, urbanism, and social housing assumed police functions for colonial and postcolonial migrants. In light of this history, contemporary social and racial segregation, periodic protests and rioting against police violence, and the aggressive posture of the Parisian police emerge as the material traces of French colonialism in the metropole. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191925411 9780191925412 9780192654243 0192654241 9780192654250 019265425X |