Éditeur(s) : Elsevier
Résumé : The French Guiana transform margin and Demerara abyssal plain have been recently surveyed in the framework of the EXTRAPLAC French Program of extension of the continental shelf (Guyaplac survey, Ifremer-IFP-SHOM-IPEV). Based on the interpretation of some of the data collected during the Guyaplac survey (Simrad-EM12 multibeam bathymetric data, backscatter imagery, and 3.5 kHz profiles), the area can be divided into three morphostructural domains. (1) The western Guiana margin, including a part of the Demerara plateau, an important bathymetric relief prolonging the continental platform off Guiana and Surinam. This domain is bounded by (1a) the NWSE trending northern border of the Demerara plateau which appears quite steep and corresponds to a transform segment of the margin, (1b) the N-S eastern border of the Demerara plateau which corresponds to a divergent segment of the margin. The Demerara plateau shows a segmented morphology, low slope gradients, and a very rough surface (ripples perpendicular to the slope direction). NNW-SSE structural steps seem to correspond to collapses of 100 km long blocs towards the east. Slumps initiate along these directions. The observed rough bathymetry seems to be related to creeping processes. At a greater scale (seismic data), this part of the margin has been totally destabilized (numerous imbricate transparent masses rooted at about 0.5 s.t.w.t.t. below seafloor). The NW-SE trending northern border of the Demerara plateau corresponds to a cliff-like continental slope, probably slightly smoother than other transform margins (Ghana/cote d'Ivoire margin). The N-S eastern border of Demerara plateau is characterized by numerous small-scale imbricate slumps. Some of these failures seem to be emplaced in the prolongation of the NNW-SSE structural steps identified on the Demerara plateau. (2) The eastern Guiana margin corresponds to a NW-SE oriented gullied transform margin segment. The associated continental slope is very steep and characterized by numerous imbricate slumps and related debris flows. Some undulated masses, probably corresponding to creeping sediments or to older mass-wasting events are still imprinted on bathymetry. This transform margin segment is nearly entirely destabilized and eroded. (3) The Demerara abyssal plain. This domain is characterized eastwards by channels belonging to the Amazon turbidite system and westwards, at the foot of Demerara continental slope, by sediment waves probably created by contour currents. To conclude, it seems that there is a strong relationship between the structure (transform and divergent segments) and the emplacement of recurrent slope instabilities. These are probably related to the steepness of the slopes but also to subsidence histories generating in some cases huge deep-seated collapses of the whole margin. Fluid ascents are common everywhere in the area, probably enhancing slope instability. Their origin is not constrained but the black shales or Cretaceous organic-rich layers could be good candidates.
Marine and Petroleum Geology (0264-8172) (Elsevier), 2009-05 , Vol. 26 , N. 5 , P. 711-723

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2009/publication-6856.pdf
DOI:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2008.02.010
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/6856/

Résumé : L’objet de cette thèse est de présenter les spécificités épidémiologiques, étiologiques et thérapeutiques de la pathologie neurovasculaire dans la population noire spécifique que constitue la population martiniquaise. En 1998, l’étude ERMANCIA I a permis de mettre en évidence une surincidence des accidents vasculaires cérébraux (AVC) en Martinique d’environ 40% par rapport à la métropole avec une haute prévalence de l’hypertension artérielle et du diabète. Ces résultats ont participé à la création en 2003 de la 1ère unité neurovasculaire aux Antilles. Le suivi à 5 ans des patients ERMANCIA I a révélé que la moitié était décédée et que 50% des survivants présentaient une démence vasculaire (soit le double des cohortes métropolitaines), probablement favorisé par une microangiopathie cérébrale sous-jacente souvent sévère amplifiant l’impact cognitif de l’AVC. Ce suivi a également permis d’identifier les faiblesses de la prévention secondaire en Martinique avec près de 80% des hypertendus qui restent mal équilibrés justifiant la création en 2006 d’un réseau de prévention. L’efficacité de ce réseau a été évaluée montrant un taux élevé de bon contrôle tensionnel (74% vs 39%, p=0,01) et une morbi-mortalité vasculaire moindre à 2,5 ans (8,3% vs 24%, p<0,001) que chez les patients contrôles. En 2012, ERMANCIA II a permis de révéler une diminution majeure (en moyenne 30%) de l’incidence des AVC dans la population martiniquaise et de la mortalité à 1 mois pour les patients ≤55 ans (20% vs 8%, p=0,03) probablement en raison d’une meilleure implémentation des mesures de prévention primaire et de la prise en charge en UNV respectivement. Nos données ont également permis de décrire certaines spécificités étiologiques des AVC chez les Martiniquais : grande fréquence de l’athérome intracrânien (pour lequel nous apportons des arguments en faveur d’une nouvelle classification), infarctus choroïdiens antérieurs dont nous décrivons le profil évolutif particulier, infarctus lacunaires multiples sévères. Deux étiologies plus « classiques » comme la drépanocytose et les IC sur morsure de serpent sont devenues anecdotiques. En revanche, une dysplasie carotidienne focale, étiologie déjà décrite mais supposée rare , pourrait être responsable d’un tiers des infarctus carotidiens d’origine indéterminée chez les Afro-Caribéens ≤55 ans exposant à un risque élevé de récidive sous traitement antiagrégant (28% à 14 mois), contre aucun pour les patients traités par endartériectomie. Sur le plan thérapeutique, nos résultats sont en faveur d’un surrisque hémorragique de la thrombolyse standard chez les patients martiniquais les plus âgés, probablement en rapport avec un cumul de lésions microangiopathiques plus important. En l’absence de neuroradiologie interventionnelle en Martinique, nos travaux montrent que certains patients avec occlusion artérielle proximale résistante à la thrombolyse IV standard peuvent bénéficier d’un complément de thrombolytique (0,1mg/Kg de tenecteplase). Une étude randomisée est prévue afin de mieux mesurer le potentiel thérapeutique de cette stratégie. Pour conclure, l’intérêt de ces données est que la population martiniquaise partage très probablement beaucoup de ses « particularités » avec d’autres populations noires encore peu décrites et pour lesquelles l’occidentalisation progressive du mode de vie risque d’accentuer le fardeau représenté par les AVC.
Our work presented herein aimed to describe the epidemiological, etiological and therapeutic features of the stroke pathology in the Martinican Afro-Caribbean population. In 1998, the first population-based epidemiological study, ERMANCIA I, showed a 40% greater firstever stroke incidence in Martinique compared to those observed in continental France, with a high prevalence of hypertension and diabetes. These results contributed to the creation, in 2003, of the first stroke unit in the Caribbean area. In the 5_year follow-up study, we found that half of the patients had died and that 50% of survivors were affected from vascular dementia (twice compared with continental French cohorts): this figure was probably favored by severe underlying cerebral microangiopathy that amplified the cognitive impact of stroke. We also identified a failure in the secondary prevention in Martinique, certified by nearly 80% of hypertensive patients still insufficiently controlled. As a result, in 2006, we developed a well-structured stroke prevention network. The efficiency of this network was attested by the high rate of good blood pressure control (74% vs. 39%, p=0.01) and the reduced vascular morbidity and mortality rate (8.3% vs. 24%, p <0.001) after a 30-month period of activity, in comparison with control “historic” patients. In 2012, ERMANCIA II study revealed a 30% reduction of first-ever stroke incidence and a reduced mortality rate at 1 month for patients ≤55 years (8% vs. 20%, p = 0.03), compared to these observed in ERMANCIA I, likely due to improvement of primary stroke prevention and the best stroke unit management at the acute phase, respectively. Based on our etiological data, we underline: 1) the relatively high frequency of symptomatic intracranial atherosclerosis, for which we propose a new definition; 2) the clinic-radiological features of stroke in the anterior choroidal artery; 3) the atypical picture of “malignant” multilacunar syndrome. On the other hand, stroke due to sickle cell disease or “trigonocephale” snakebite were only anecdotal. However, we found that carotid-bulb atypical fibromuscular dysplasia (CAFD), a very unusual previously described cause of stroke, could be responsible for up to the third of carotidterritory stroke of so-called undetermined etiology among patients ≤55 years. In addition, the relatively high rate of recurrence under antiplatelet (28% at 14 months), was dramatically reduced by endarterectomy in patients with CAFD. From a therapeutic point of view, our results showed an excess rate of post-thrombolysis symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhages in older patients, a figure probably linked to the severe underlying hypertension-triggered cerebral microangiopathy. Owing to the lack of neurointerventionnal option in Martinique, we tested a new therapeutic strategy in patients with a proximal arterial occlusion not responsive to standard IV thrombolysis, consisting in an additional administration of IV tenecteplase, 0.1mg/kg. Our preliminary results were promising, leading us to plan a randomized study. Finally, most of the characteristics of stroke in this Afro-Caribbean population are probably shared by the majority of black people. Thus, our results could have a universal impact in the understanding of stroke burden in blacks.

http://www.theses.fr/2015AGUY0909/document

Éditeur(s) : Elsevier
Résumé : A previously unknown pattern of multiple bottom-simulating reflections (BSRs) occurs on high-resolution reflection seismic data in the Danube deep-sea fan, associated with acoustic features indicating free gas. Our study provides evidence that this pattern is developed in relation with the architecture of distinct channel-levee systems of the Danube fan. Channel-levee systems hosting multiple BSRs act as relatively sealed gas-bearing systems whose top is situated above the base of the gas hydrate stability zone (BGHSZ). Inside these systems, free gas accumulates below the BGHSZ under a combined lithological, structural and stratigraphical control. The uppermost BSR marks the current equilibrium BGHSZ, for a gas composition of more than 99% methane. Model-derived depths of the BGHSZ for different gas compositions and pressure-temperature conditions show that multiple BSRs would correspond to the BGHSZ either for (1) layers of gas hydrates with high contents of heavy hydrocarbons or hydrogen sulphide, or (2) stable climatic episodes with temperatures between glacial values and the present-day conditions. As the gas hydrate compositions required by hypothesis (I) are in sharp contradiction with the general background of the gas composition in the study area, we suggest that multiple BSRs are most probably relics of former positions of the BGHSZ, corresponding to successive steps of climate warming. In this case, they can provide sea-bottom paleotemperature values for these episodes, and hence they are potential new proxies for deciphering past climate conditions.
Marine Geology (0025-3227) (Elsevier), 2006-03 , Vol. 227 , N. 3-4 , P. 163-176

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-1210.pdf
DOI:10.1016/j.margeo.2005.12.006
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/1210/

Éditeur(s) : World Aquaculture Society, Aquaculture 2006
Résumé : Oysters are among the most familiar of all marine invertebrate taxa. However our knowledge of oyster phylogeny and systematics is fragmentary. This is principally due to the plastic growth patterns of these animals, which result in a wide range of overlapping, ecophenotypic variants that greatly reduce the value of analysis based on shell morphology. Besides that, many intentional or accidental anthropogenic transfers have emphasised this situation. In several cases of misclassification or misidentification of oysters, DNA molecular data, have provided valuable new insights on the tracing of introductions or more generally on the phylogeographic relationships between oyster species. We will illustrate this issue with recent case studies from our lab on several flat and cupped oysters: (1) the Crassostrea gigas – Crassostrea angulata couple of Asian species and their successive introductions in Europe, (2) the new species of cupped oysters, Crassostrea honkongensis, described in Hong-Kong and very divergent from the species Crassostrea gigas it was initially supposed to be, (3) the mangrove oyster Crassostrea gasar that was shown not only to be present along the coasts of Western Africa but also along the Atlantic coasts of South America, and (4) the geographic disjunction between Ostreola stentina, described in the Mediterranean Sea, and the genetically closely related species Ostrea aupouria (from New Zealand) and Ostreola equestris (from Mexico Gulf/Atlantic). At the intra specific level, we will focus on one of the main documented case in Europe, the flat oyster, Ostrea edulis. It is a marine bivalve whose natural geographical distribution ranges along the European Atlantic coast from Norway to Morocco, in addition to the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Studies of allozymes, microsatellites and mitochondrial differentiation over the whole range concluded that a significant divergence existed between Mediterranean and Atlantic populations, together with an isolation-by-distance pattern. However, the average mitochondrial haplotypic diversity displayed a high among populations variance, reflecting smaller effective population size in some locations. Additionally, a ten-fold quantitative difference was observed in the same study in Fst between the mitochondrial and the nuclear genomes, which could be due to sex biased differential reproductive success between males and females. In order to further document this hypothesis, two experiments at the population level were conducted. First, brooding females were sampled in a wild population and the number of males fertilizing a given female estimated. Then, parentage analyses were achieved under experimental conditions: successive mass spawnings were collected from a population of potential genitors kept in hatchery, whose genotypes were known, in order to infer a posteriori the relative contribution of each genitor. Moreover, we aimed to better understand the reproduction dynamics of this species. Several patterns of spawning could be distinguished: unique, successive or extended in time. The different parental contributions and reproductive behaviors observed in these experiments are discussed in the context of the hypothesis of a variance in the reproductive success of males and females and consequences in local and temporal reduced effective population sizes.

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Éditeur(s) : Canadian Science Publishing, Nrc Research Press
Résumé : We develop a spatially and seasonally explicit bioeconomic model with three fleet dynamics processes built in endogenously. The model has been applied to the large French trawlers harvesting a medium-depth demersal stock, North Sea saithe (i.e., pollock, Pollachius virens), and a mix of deepwater species over a 10-year period (1999-2008), and the predictions have been contrasted with observations. The best overall fit was achieved where effort allocation was determined to be 80% by traditions and 20% by economic opportunism and where harvest efficiency increased by 8% a year. With this fleet dynamics parameterization, annual trends in fishing effort and profit were well reproduced by the model over the whole time period. Time series of the observed fishing effort by metier were generally well fitted by the model over the period 1999-2003, but less so over 2004-2008. The model also reasonably reproduced the catches by species over most of the time series, except for black scabbardfish (Aphanopus carbo).
Nous développons un modèle bio-économique spatial et saisonnier dans lequel trois processus caractérisant la dynamique des flottilles sont décrits de manière explicite. Ce modèle a été appliqué aux grands chalutiers français exploitant le lieu noir de mer du Nord (Pollachius virens) et une variété d'espèces profondes au cours d'une période de 10 ans (1999–2008), et les prévisions ont été contrastées avec les observations. Le meilleur ajustement est obtenu lorsque l'allocation de l'effort de pêche est déterminée a` hauteur de 80% par les traditions et 20% par l'opportunisme économique, et lorsque l'augmentation de l'efficacité de pêche est d'environ 8% par an. En paramétrant ainsi le module de dynamique des flottilles, les tendances annuelles de l'effort de pêche et du profit sont bien reproduites par le modèle sur l'ensemble de la période. Les variations temporelles de l'effort de pêche par métier sont généralement bien prises en compte sur la période 1999–2003, mais non sur la période 2004–2008. Le modèle ajuste les captures raisonnablement sur la plus grande partie de la période d'étude, pour toutes les espèces sauf le sabre noir (Aphanopus carbo).
Canadian Journal Of Fisheries And Aquatic Sciences (0706-652X) (Canadian Science Publishing, Nrc Research Press), 2013-07 , Vol. 70 , N. 7 , P. 992-1010

Droits : 2013 NRC Research Press
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00151/26227/24329.pdf
DOI:10.1139/cjfas-2012-0326
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00151/26227/

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : Cet article discute du lien entre racisme, ségrégation ethnique et trafic de drogues illicites dans trois territoires caribéens caractérisés par une forte représentation des populations d'origine indienne et africaine : Trinidad, le Suriname et le Guyana. Pour des raisons historiques, ces territoires ont connu l'apparition relativement récente d'une classe d'entrepreneurs indo-caribéen prospère. D'un autre côté, pour les mêmes raisons, les populations d'origine afro-caribéennes y représentent l'essentiel de la classe pauvre urbaine. C'est sur cette base que s'est développé, à partir des années 1980, le trafic de cocaïne colombienne. D'où, dans la majorité des cas, une spécialisation ethnique des activités liées au trafic. A la base de la pyramide sociale, les jeunes Afro-caribéens des bidonvilles de Buxton (Guyana) ou de Laventille (Trinidad), par exemple, se retrouvent sur-représentés parmi les coupables de crimes commandités liés au trafic. Et émerge un discours raciste présentant les « noirs » comme plus enclin au crime...
This paper focus on an analysis of the relationship between racism, segregation and the illicit drug trade inside three Caribbean territories known for their large share of population of Indian and African origin: Trinidad, Suriname and Guyana. Because of historical reasons, those territories have known the recent growth of a wealthy Indo-Caribbean business class. On the other hand, for similar reasons, Afro-Caribbeans today represent most of the urban poor lower class. From the 1980's Colombian cocaine trafficking affected those territories; hence a drug trafficking activities' ethnical specialization. At the bottom of the pyramid, young Afro-Caribbeans are today overwhelmingly represented amongst perpetrators of crime linked to the traffic. Progressively a racist discourse tends here to present « blacks » as more prone to crime...
Guyana
Suriname
Trinité

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Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : Le principe de l’antiphonie, appelé communément « call-response » est souvent évoqué dans une configuration contextuelle de l’expression artistique, qu’elle soit littéraire, comme dans les œuvres de Toni Morrison par exemple, ou musicale, dans la plupart des cas. Il se veut le processus par lequel se formateront les modalités de communication entre les membres d’un auditoire et un interprète, un créateur. Cet article propose une approche plus large, plus transversale de cet habitus typique des communautés noires des Amériques, et particulièrement dans les contextes contemporains du Mouvement pour les Droits civiques et du renouveau esthétique du Jazz, consécutive à l’ère Swing.
The principle of antiphony, more commonly known as "call-response" is often mentioned in the contextual configuration of an artistic expression, whether literary, as in Toni Morrison’s novels for example, or in music, in most cases. It represents the process that will frame and format the modalities of communication between members of an audience and a performer, a creator. This article proposes a broader and cross-reading approach of this typical habitus among black communities in the Americas, especially in contemporary contexts of the Civil Rights Movements and of the aesthetic renewal of Jazz, after the Swing era.

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urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.7113
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Éditeur(s) : Actes de colloques Ifremer, Tahiti, French Polynesia, 20 Feb - 4 Mar 1989, n°9, chap. 44, pp.485
Résumé : Centropomidae and Serranidae, sometimes collectively misnamed "sea basses", are suitable for aquaculture in pens, ponds, and raceways around the tropical and subtropical latitudes of the world. Western Atlantic Ocean species were recently considered for farming. South Florida, Mexico, Central and South America and the Antilles areas of the Caribbean Basin have extensive areas suitable for farming groupers and snook. Principal species of interest are the common snook (Centropomus undecimalis ), the fat snook (C. parallelus ), the Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus ), Black seabass (Centropristis striatus ), Gag (Mycteroperca microlepis ), and jewfish (E. itajara ).

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Résumé : Évoquer la place des libres de couleur en Martinique des origines à 1815, c'est évoqué un curieux paradoxe. Afin d'appréhender ce dernier et aborder la position des libres de couleur dans la société, il a fallu se pencher sur le processus de formation de ce groupe de 1635 à la veille de la Révolution française, en mettant en lumière l'origine de celui-ci, le statut, la condition des personnes, la répartition géographique, la situation socioéconomique et les réseaux de sociabilité qu'ils utilisent dans la société. L'abord de ce processus ne pouvait se faire sans la prise en compte de la politique menée par l'administration envers l'affranchissement. L'utilisation des registres paroissiaux (puis de l'état civil) et du notariat a permis la confrontation entre la théorie (le droit colonial), et, la pratique quotidienne. Il a fallu ensuite mettre en évidence dans un second temps comment, malgré la Révolution française et de ses idéaux, de son impact en Martinique, la ségrégation perdure à l'encontre du groupe des libres de couleur et confirme l'entre-deux de celui-ci dans la société, en dépit de son accroissement numérique (via l'affranchissement principalement) et économique, et ce, jusqu'au début de la Restauration. La politique coloniale menée par les différentes administrations qui se succèdent et les troubles qui perturbent l'ordre établi ont favorisé la compréhension du phénomène. Si, les libres de couleur furent assimilés dès 1685 aux sujets naturels du royaume de France, ils ne purent pourtant exercer comme les Blancs, certaines charges publiques, certaines professions libérales, certains emplois dans la milice (officiers). Cependant, certains d'entre eux réussirent à se hisser économiquement au niveau des négociants blancs avant 1815. Néanmoins, ils demeurèrent cantonnés dans une place mitoyenne entre Blancs et esclaves, une "zone tampon", un entre-deux discriminatoire et ségrégatif. Ces libres de couleur qui étaient aussi bien des noirs que des métis furent rejetés par les Blancs qu'ils souhaitaient égaler et méprisaient en général les esclaves alors qu'ils étaient souvent liés à eux par un ancêtre noir. Comme les Blancs, ils possédaient des esclaves, des terres et des maisons. Pourtant, leur situation dans la société fut très paradoxale.
To evoke the place of free coloureds in Martinic from the earliest times to 1815, it is evoked a curious paradox. In order to apprehend this last and to tackle free coloureds position in the society, it had to look into the process of development of this group from 1635 to the day before french revolution. The access of this process could not become without taking into consideration of the political controlled by the administration on emancipation. The utilization of parish registers (then registers of births, marriages and deaths) and deeds executed by a notary permitted confrontation between the theory (the colonial right) and the daily practical. It had to show how in spite of french revolution and these ideals, and this impact in Martinic, the segregation be continued against free coloureds group and confirmed space in between of this group in the society in spite of these numerical and economic growth (by way of emancipation principally), and those, as far as the beginning of the Restoration. The colonial political controlled by different administrations who followed one another and unrest who perturbed etablished order assisted the comprehension of this phenomenon. If free coloureds were assimilated since 1685 to natural subjects of french kingdom with the same rights, privileges and immunities, they did not exercise as whites some public responsabilities and offices, some liberal trades, some positions in militia (officers). Before the end of observation period (1815), some people were succeded to hoist themselves economically on a level with whites wholesalers. In spite of that, they were limited in a intermediate place between whites and slaves, a "buffer zone". Free coloureds who were as well as blacks than halfcastes have been rejected by whites that they would wish to equal and despised in general slaves even when they had common interests (a mother or a sister in slavery). As whites, they possessed slaves, estates and houses. However, their situation was so paradoxical in the colonial society.

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Résumé : À la Martinique au XVIIIe siècle, les « libres de couleur », qu’ils soient nés libres ou affranchis, noirs ou métis, forment une catégorie juridique distincte des Blancs et des esclaves. L’étude comparée, avec les territoires espagnols ou anglais, montre qu’aucune réglementation légale n’a officialisé un passage de la catégorie Libre de couleur à celle de Blanc dans les colonies françaises de la fin du XVIIe siècle à la Révolution française. Aussi, cette thèse se propose de montrer les processus officieux qui ont permis à certaines personnes – les « assimilés » – de franchir la barrière de couleur. Une réflexion a été menée sur le préjugé de couleur, système raciste dont l’idéologie, soutenue par la réglementation locale, a légitimé la construction collective d’un ordre public et social. Puis, on a examiné l’élaboration de la barrière de couleur. Les libres de couleur ont été les premiers à faire les frais de l’imperméabilisation de la ligne de démarcation et des problèmes posés par la pureté de sang ; mais les Blancs mésalliés, dans le cadre d’unions interraciales, et les Amérindiens ont aussi été visés. Enfin nous avons réfléchi à ce qui faisait la blancheur et aux stratégies adoptées pour réussir ce changement de statut. Le notariat et les 33 000 actes des registres paroissiaux traités ont donné lieu à la reconstitution de généalogies pour examiner des individus et des familles sur plusieurs générations ; on a ainsi observé l’importance du phénotype, le blanchiment, la légitimité des relations, les conjoints privilégiés, le choix des réseaux, les niveaux de fortune et l’usage de l’espace.
In Martinique in the eighteenth century, the "free people of color", both those free by birth and freedmen, black or mixed race, form a legal category, which was distinct from those of whites and slaves. Comparative studies with Spanish or English territories show that no legal regulation formalized a shift - from the category of free colored people to that of White - in the French colonies between the late seventeenth century and the French Revolution. Also, this thesis proposes to show the informal process that enabled some people - the "assimilated" - to cross the color barrier. I analysed the color prejudice, a racist system, whose ideology, supported by local regulations, legitimized the collective construction of a public and social order. In a second step, I examined the development of the color bar. The free colored people were the first to bear the brunt of the impermeability of the demarcation line and of the problems posed by the purity of blood; but some whites, through interracial unions, and Native Americans have also been targeted. Finally I thought about what made the whiteness, and the strategies to achieve whiteness, change in status. Notarial acts and 33,000 acts of parish registers treaties led to the reconstitution of genealogies, in order to examine individuals and families over generations; I observed the importance of the phenotype, whitening, legitimacy relations, privileged partners, choice of networks, wealth levels and the use of space.

http://www.theses.fr/2015AGUY0847/document