Gipsies, Moors and Negroes before the courts: institutional colonialism and racism during the Spanish Second Republic (1931-1936)

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i21.647

Keywords:

Spanish Second Republic, Interwar Europe, Constitutional State, Judicial Power, colonialism, racism.

Abstract

This article analyses how relations between constitutionalism and colonialism caused problems to the citizenship-making project and the guarantee of rights during the Spanish Second Republic. Regulations are studied, but also various judicial and administrative archives with the aim of unravelling the interpretation of law and the day-to-day running of the bodies involved in the administration of justice (judges, prosecutors, police and military). In the end, it is argued that the behaviour of the administration in the face of these realities constitutes one of the reflections of the existence of institutional resistance to the Constitutional State, without ignoring its dark side.

Enviado el (Submission Date): 19/02/2020

Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 24/03/2020

Author Biography

Rubén Pérez Trujillano, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

Área de Historia del Derecho y de las Instituciones del Departamento de Ciencias Jurídicas Básicas.

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Published

2020-03-15

Issue

No. 21 (2020): Historia Constitucional N. 21 (2020)

Section

Spain

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