Name: Empire on the Seine. The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975
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Author: Amit Prakash
ISBN: 9780198976134

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Empire on the Seine. The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Autor

Amit Prakash

Colección

Oxford Studies in Modern European History

Año

2025

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.5x15.5x1.5 cm

ISBN13

9780198976134

Empire on the Seine. The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975

Amit Prakash (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Amit Prakash draws on extensive archival materials to understand the colonial legacy of how minority populations have been policed in twentieth-century Paris, showing how colonial racism was integrated into the policing of Paris, and that architecture, urbanism, and social housing contributed to this legacy.

Why are relations between minorities and the police in France so fraught? Stripping away the myth that this tension is a sudden and recent disruption of its universalist republican tradition brought on by the presence of North African immigrants, Amit Prakash locates the origins of contemporary conflicts in race and empire in France''s history. In Empire on the Seine, Prakash argues that the métropole and the colony dynamically co-developed a policing regime over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 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. Prakash shows that 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.Using police archival records, reports from colonial officials, urban planning and housing studies, and the records of French social workers and immigrant associations, Prakash shows 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 métropole. The city of Paris was the capital of an empire and its imperial shadows are long.