• Centre for Caribbean Studies Lecture:

Negotiated identity: Free people of colour and “passing” in French Caribbean

Tuesday 13 June, 5-7pm in Oculus OC0.05

Jessica Pierre-Louis has completed a PhD in Modern History in June 2015; she is now a researcher associate at the AIHP-GEODE EA 929 laboratory and member of group Rezo working on the networks in French Antilles history. Her fields of research concern the social history of Martinique in the 17th and 18th centuries. Her interests include prejudice of colour, racial categorisation system, passing and Free Coloured people. This Summer term, she is the Transatlantic Visiting Fellow in the Centre for Caribbean Studies.