Book Review: Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

In Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa, Rachel Jean-Baptiste offers a groundbreaking, richly textured exploration of how métis individuals navigated and contested racial, social, and legal boundaries in French West Africa (FWA) and French Equatorial Africa (FEA) between 1895 and 1960. Building on archival and oral history research in Senegal, Gabon, Congo, and France, Jean-Baptiste significantly advances scholarship on colonial race-making, citizenship, and childhood, while also carving out space for the voices and agency of multiracial Africans.