 Relations of appropriation in Mauritius. The exploitation of black women according to Colette Guillaumin’s theory 
This article uses Guillaumin’s theory on the relationships of appropriation in order to study the articulation and transformation of race and sex relationships in Mauritius during the second half of XXth and early XXIth century. I study the evolution of the specific exploitation of black women since the plantation system, by interpretating the way by which some Mauritian women employed in domestic work define their own exploitation. I demonstrate that the exploitation of subsistence domestic work is central to the combination of various forms of black women’s appropriation, to the extension of their appropriation in the current context of production crisis, and to the creation of a social subject who looks after the re-appropriation of its individuality by “working for oneself”.