Black Girls -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1. Keywords -- 1 Postcoloniality -- 2 Black Europe -- 3 Memory and Identity -- 4 Intersectionality -- 5 Body Work -- 6 Home -- 7 Postcolonial Cultural Capital -- 2. Differences and Similarities in History -- Suriname -- Colonialism and Slavery -- Independence -- Moving from Suriname to the Netherlands -- Migration and Racism in the Netherlands -- Living in Rotterdam -- Afro-Surinamese Women in the Dutch Care Sector -- Eritrea -- Eritrea's History and Italian Colonialism -- Eritrea towards Independence -- Eritrean Migration to Italy -- Migration and Racism in Italy -- Eritreans in Rome -- Eritrean Women in the Italian Domestic Sector -- PART 1: Postcolonial Migrants -- 3. Colonial Acculturation and Belonging -- 1 Black Dutch -- 2 The 'Ambivalence' of Bonds -- 3 The Case of School Education -- 4. Paramaribo and Asmara as Culture-Contact Zones -- 1 Separation and Survival of Domestic Slavery -- 2 A Hierarchical Cultural Contamination -- 3 Spatial Propinquity and Cultures -- 4 Hierarchies within 'Familiarity' -- 5 The Case of Mass and Popular Culture -- 5. Postcolonial Encounters: Arriving in Italy and in the Netherlands -- 1 Class and Belonging 'after' the Migration -- 2 Asymmetries of Recognition -- 3 The Legacy of Slavery -- PART 2: Migrant Domestic Labour -- 6. A Labour Niche for Postcolonial Migrant Women -- 1 Niche Formation and Coloniality of Power -- 2 Substitution across Class and 'Race'/Ethnicity -- 3 Religious Figures and Employment -- 4 The 'Good' Job -- 5 Agencies and 'Ethnic' Representations -- 7. Narratives and Practices of Work and Identity -- 1 Everyday (Domestic) Practices and Identity -- 2 Rhythms and Gestures of Care -- 3 Self-Identifications between Care, Cleaning and Servitude -- 4 Time, Tasks and Female Models.

5 Time, Body and Enactment of Power -- 8. Ethnicisation of Care and Domestic Skills -- 1 'Ethnicisation' and the Right Personality -- 2 Subservience as a Skill -- 3 Familiarity with Domestic Work as a Social Position -- 4 Reversal of Hierarchies -- 5 Respect and Discipline -- 6 The Case of Food and Cooking -- 9. Racism at Work, under Colonial Legacies -- 1 Racism, Ressentiment and Slavery -- 2 Home Care as a 'Scenario of Racism' -- 3 Spatial Confinement -- 4 Bodies: Wearing Inferiority -- 5 Re-Enacting Colonial Times -- Conclusions -- Appendices -- I Notes on the Fieldwork -- II Notes on the Interviewees -- Bibliography -- Index.