{"product_id":"empire-on-the-seine-the-policing-of-north-africans-in-paris-1925-1975-hardcover","title":"Empire on the Seine: The Policing of North Africans in Paris, 1925-1975 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmit Prakash\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy 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 \u003cem\u003eEmpire on the Seine\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003ethe 1970s. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmit Prakash, \u003cem\u003eVisiting Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies, Middlebury College\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmit Prakash is a historian specializing in the history of policing, modern imperialism, and decolonization. He has taught at Columbia University, Bryn Mawr College, Poly Prep, and the Trinity School in New York City. He is co-host of the politics and history podcast \u003cem\u003eNo Politics at the Dinner Table\u003c\/em\u003e. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the International and Global Studies program at Middlebury College.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.84 x 9.34 x 6.44 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42727402045503,"sku":"9780192898876","price":196.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9b8c23f578ff20ab4fddb6d1b4615b33.webp?v=1765114684","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/empire-on-the-seine-the-policing-of-north-africans-in-paris-1925-1975-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}