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Guadeloupe, Martinique & Puerto Rico. Comparing Post-Colonial, Non-Sovereign Trajectories

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of anthropology at Hunter College, CUNY. Her work focuses on questions of sovereignty, citizenship, and race across the Americas. She has tracked these issues across a broad range of sites: anti-colonial labor activism in the French Caribbean, the role of digital protest in the Black Lives Matter movement, the politics of the Trump presidency, and…

Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean – Eric T. Jennings

La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City

To RSVP, please click here. In the early years of World War II, thousands of political refugees traveled from France to Vichy-controlled Martinique in the French Caribbean, en route to what they hoped would be safer shores in North, Central, and South America. While awaiting transfer from the colony, the exiles formed influential ties—with one another and with local black dissidents. Escape from…