Rachel Jean-Baptiste
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 221947 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rachel Jean-Baptiste |
| PRENOMES | Rachel |
| SOBRENOME | Jean-Baptiste |
| ASSINATURA | JEAN-BAPTISTE R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Case Western Reserve University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Runaway Enslaved Families in Senegal
Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa
Saheed Aderinto. When Sex Threatened the State
Saheed Aderinto investigates the history of the regulation and practice of child and adult heterosexual prostitution in twentieth-century colonial Lagos, Nigeria. Aderinto refers to the African residents of the town as Lagosians, emphasizing how Africans shaped city life prior to and during the period of British colonial rule. The book chronicles the reconfiguration of sexual politics from the first decade of the twentieth century to 1958. An epi…
"Miss Eurafrica"
"Miss Eurafrica":Men, Women's Sexuality, and Métis Identity in Late Colonial French Africa, 1945-1960 Rachel Jean-Baptiste (bio) The 1960 issue of the magazine L'Eurafricain (The Eurafrican) featured a cover photo of a woman announced as "Miss L'Eurafrique" (figure 1). 1 Edited from Dakar under the auspices of the Union internationale des métis (International Union of Mixed-Race Persons), the magazine was written in French and printed in Paris. T…
A Black Girl Should Not be With a White Man
This article reviews representations and lived experiences of interracial sex and métissage in twentieth-century colonial Gabon to argue that African communities and colonial societies debated over "the métis problem" as question of how to demarcate African women's sexuality, and socioeconomic and political power in the urban locale. These discourses and social realities reflected ambiguous and contradictory colonial discourses and polyvalent str…
These Laws Should Be Made by Us’
This article analyzes the multiple and failed efforts to codify customary marriage law over the course of the twentieth century in colonial Gabon. It argues that these efforts illuminate the discursive arenas in which the colonial state, the church and African political leaders struggled to demarcate power and control over wealth-in-women. In a time of sociopolitical crisis and change state, chiefs and other elite African men all become involved …
The Option of the Judicial Path
« L’option de la voie juridique ». Conflits portant sur le mariage, le divorce et les rapports sexuels en dehors du mariage dans les tribunaux coloniaux de Libreville, Gabon 1939-1959. – À l’appui de documents d’époque issus des multiples niveaux des tribunaux indigènes de Libreville (Gabon) de 1939 à 1959, cet article avance qu’il est difficile d’identifier ce que constituaient le mariage et le droit sur les femmes à cette période de changement …
Elderly Immigrants and the Saga of Welfare Reform
These Laws Should Be Made by Us’
This article analyzes the multiple and failed efforts to codify customary marriage law over the course of the twentieth century in colonial Gabon. It argues that these efforts illuminate the discursive arenas in which the colonial state, the church and African political leaders struggled to demarcate power and control over wealth-in-women. In a time of sociopolitical crisis and change state, chiefs and other elite African men all become involved …
A Black Girl Should Not be With a White Man
This article reviews representations and lived experiences of interracial sex and métissage in twentieth-century colonial Gabon to argue that African communities and colonial societies debated over "the métis problem" as question of how to demarcate African women's sexuality, and socioeconomic and political power in the urban locale. These discourses and social realities reflected ambiguous and contradictory colonial discourses and polyvalent str…
The Option of the Judicial Path
« L’option de la voie juridique ». Conflits portant sur le mariage, le divorce et les rapports sexuels en dehors du mariage dans les tribunaux coloniaux de Libreville, Gabon 1939-1959. – À l’appui de documents d’époque issus des multiples niveaux des tribunaux indigènes de Libreville (Gabon) de 1939 à 1959, cet article avance qu’il est difficile d’identifier ce que constituaient le mariage et le droit sur les femmes à cette période de changement …
Elderly Immigrants and the Saga of Welfare Reform
The Option of the Judicial Path
« L’option de la voie juridique ». Conflits portant sur le mariage, le divorce et les rapports sexuels en dehors du mariage dans les tribunaux coloniaux de Libreville, Gabon 1939-1959. – À l’appui de documents d’époque issus des multiples niveaux des tribunaux indigènes de Libreville (Gabon) de 1939 à 1959, cet article avance qu’il est difficile d’identifier ce que constituaient le mariage et le droit sur les femmes à cette période de changement …
These Laws Should Be Made by Us’
This article analyzes the multiple and failed efforts to codify customary marriage law over the course of the twentieth century in colonial Gabon. It argues that these efforts illuminate the discursive arenas in which the colonial state, the church and African political leaders struggled to demarcate power and control over wealth-in-women. In a time of sociopolitical crisis and change state, chiefs and other elite African men all become involved …
A Black Girl Should Not be With a White Man
This article reviews representations and lived experiences of interracial sex and métissage in twentieth-century colonial Gabon to argue that African communities and colonial societies debated over "the métis problem" as question of how to demarcate African women's sexuality, and socioeconomic and political power in the urban locale. These discourses and social realities reflected ambiguous and contradictory colonial discourses and polyvalent str…
"Miss Eurafrica"
"Miss Eurafrica":Men, Women's Sexuality, and Métis Identity in Late Colonial French Africa, 1945-1960 Rachel Jean-Baptiste (bio) The 1960 issue of the magazine L'Eurafricain (The Eurafrican) featured a cover photo of a woman announced as "Miss L'Eurafrique" (figure 1). 1 Edited from Dakar under the auspices of the Union internationale des métis (International Union of Mixed-Race Persons), the magazine was written in French and printed in Paris. T…
Saheed Aderinto. When Sex Threatened the State
Saheed Aderinto investigates the history of the regulation and practice of child and adult heterosexual prostitution in twentieth-century colonial Lagos, Nigeria. Aderinto refers to the African residents of the town as Lagosians, emphasizing how Africans shaped city life prior to and during the period of British colonial rule. The book chronicles the reconfiguration of sexual politics from the first decade of the twentieth century to 1958. An epi…
Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa
Runaway Enslaved Families in Senegal
Political science (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Colonialism (5 obras) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · African history and culture studies (4 obras) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (4 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Ethnology (3 obras)