Las mujeres y las familias multirraciales en la redefinición de los estatus de los libres de color : El caso de las negras francesas en Cuba, siglo XIX
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À la base de l’esclavage aux Antilles, où sévit le système de la plantation, on trouve le ravalement de l’esclave au rang d’une « marchandise » corvéable et malléable à merci, mais – et c’est là où réside l’originalité de la thèse d’Arlette Gautier –, on constate une division sexuelle du travail : aux esclaves hommes, la technique, les outils, voire les armes, aux esclaves femmes, la fonction de reproduction, les travaux peu qualifiants, ce qui n’exclut ni leur périllosité ni leur pénibilité.
Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side accuses the other of serving foreign interests. Yet each proposes future foreign interventions on behalf of their respective causes despite the country’s traumatic past with European colonialism and American imperialism. As Erin L. Durban shows, two discourses dominate discussions of intervention.
Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat in examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harbored by the French.
In Women and Slavery in the French Antilles, 1635–1848, Bernard Moitt argues that gender had a profound effect on the slave plantation system in the French Antilles. He details and analyzes the social condition of enslaved black women in the plantation societies of Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and French Guiana from 1635 to the abolition of slavery in the French colonial empire in 1848.