Letters to a Black woman by Elsa Dorlin Françoise Ega

In France in the 1960s, hundreds of women arrived from the Antilles to be placed as domestics in the homes of bourgeois and white families. Françoise Ega, who arrived in Marseille in the mid-1950s from Martinique, worked as a cleaning lady to bear witness to this exploitation. She recorded this experience in a diary of daily resistance. At once a chronicle of the refusal of alienation, a social investigation, an intimate history and a political manifesto, this text is an essential contribution to current reflections on class, gender and race relations.