… of the children mentioned in Barot's account during the period of French rule in West
Africa. I have not paid much attention to the mixed-race communities first founded in the pre-colonial …

… metis identity within a colonial society whose racial precepts were … of miscegenation as an
aspect both of wider colonial rule … advances our knowledge of French colonialism in Africa. It is …

… in Africa to take concubines both to maintain their health and to … West Africa. White describes
the orphanages and schools that the French set up for the children and covers the French …

… West Africa at the time when Europe competing to control Africa's trade and mineral wealth.
… to i960 - in other words, the colonial period for most of what was then French West Africa - …

… to colonial politics, his examination of French West Africa … and to the approaches of other
colonial powers. Unlike the British… administrators and African women, the French always …

… like in colonial society for these “children of colonialism.” White begins with the observation
that the French identified the métis as a “problem” very early on in the life of the colony, one …

Cet ouvrage reprend l'essentiel d'une thèse (Ph. D.). Il est consacré à l'étude de la situation
des métis franco-africains en Afrique occidentale française, durant la période coloniale …

… The next part of the book deals with the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the
expansion of the caravan trade upon the societies of this corner of West Africa. The instability …

… the mixed-race children bom in French West Africa during the period 1895-1960 and draw
… that sexual relations in the colonies cannot be seen solely in the light of French strength and …

… been a French possession since the 1600s and remains a departement d'outre-mer. White
focuses on the years from 1895 until the independence of the West African colonies in 1960; …