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This analysis of French blackness and of the “thin” or “thick” identities that are articulated in it implies incorporating the history and political work that may have contributed to producing a social image of Blacks in the context of postcolonial France. Far from constituting a simple import of the history of the United States, the article shows how it is possible to envisage the contours taken by a French-style blackness by comparing France and the United States and by developing an analysis based on the French Caribbean territories marked by circulations in the whole of the Black Atlantic.