Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "Well-written and superbly researched account of the long-term history of French policing of racialized minorities and its imperialpedigree. Students interested in the metropolitan repercussions of the French Empirewould be well advised to read it carefully." -- Michael Goebel, Journal of Modern History
"[A] well-written and superbly researched account of the long-term history of French policing of racialized minorities and its imperial pedigree. Students interested in the metropolitan repercussions of the French Empire would be well advised to read it carefully." -- Michael Goebel, Journal of Modern History