Lettres à Noirs
Letters to a Black Woman
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Françoise Ega's Lettres à Noirs is referenced as a first-person account where the author takes work as a housekeeper to investigate and expose abusive labor conditions faced by Antillean migrants under the French Bumidom program.
Boum-Maké uses the memoir to illustrate how domestic care work is invisibilized and racialized, reproducing colonial power dynamics.
The book is framed as an early example of writers documenting state-sponsored migration and its exploitative consequences.
The episode does not supply extended bibliographic details, focusing instead on the memoir's thematic relevance to care studies and colonial labor.
Boum-Maké uses the memoir to illustrate how domestic care work is invisibilized and racialized, reproducing colonial power dynamics.
The book is framed as an early example of writers documenting state-sponsored migration and its exploitative consequences.
The episode does not supply extended bibliographic details, focusing instead on the memoir's thematic relevance to care studies and colonial labor.
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Jennifer Boum-Maké
Jennifer Boum Make, "Decolonial Care: Reimagining Caregiving in the French Caribbean" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
