| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Oxford studies in modern European history |
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Oxford studies in modern European history.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. The Police Conception of North Africans -- 2. The Police Production of Space -- 3. The Coming of the Algerian Revolution -- 4. Imperial Sentinels -- 5. Droit de Cité(s) -- 6. The Quest for "Autonomy" -- Conclusion |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Discrimination in law enforcement -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
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North Africans -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century
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Discrimination in law enforcement
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North Africans
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Race relations
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| SUBJECT |
Paris (France) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
France -- Paris
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0191925411 |
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9780191925412 |
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9780192654243 |
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0192654241 |
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