La couleur comme maléfice
Subtitle: une illustration créole de la généalogie des "Blancs" et des "Noirs"
By: Jean-Luc Bonniol.
Series: Bibliothèque de synthèse,
Publisher: A. Michel
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Creoles -- West Indies, French -- History.; Creoles -- Race identity -- West Indies, French.; West Indies, French -- Race relations.
Description: "Shows that the whitening of the population that occurred in Les Saintes (Guadeloupe) after 1848 resulted from departure of former slaves and freedmen from the islands, rather than from an influx of French settlers as popularly assumed. Anthropologist with a historical bent reflects on ways in which barriers between whites and blacks based on phenotypic differences have been culturally constructed while at the same time contested and reshaped by miscegenation. Based on fieldwork in La Désirade and Les Saintes"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and index.