An Argument on the Contradiction of
French Views of Assimilation and Association
After the French Revolution, the intention of equality among its citizens extended to the French colonial West African native population in theory looked at Senegal (as today) relating to the assortment of people as racially mixed, at times combined "into multiple combinations It is a veritable kaleidoscope of races, that complicate the admixtures by our civilization" (Sarraut 100). This fact framed the racist inherent view of the French colonial toward the native West African based on a scientific ideology of white supremacy of the species of man (Betts 1966). The historical dialogue of French ...
