A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of QuebecWhat is the relationship between migration and politics in Quebec? How did French Canadians’ activities in the global south influence future debates about migration and Quebec society? How did migrants, in turn, shape debates about language, class, nationalism and sexuality? A Place in the Sun explores these questions through overlapping histories of Quebec and Haiti. From the 1930s to the 1950s, French-Canadian and Haitian cultural and political elites developed close intellectual bonds and large numbers of French-Canadian missionaries began working in the country. Through these encounters, French-Canadian intellectual and religious figures developed an image of Haiti that would circulate widely throughout Quebec and have ongoing cultural ramifications. After first exploring French-Canadian views of Haiti, Sean Mills reverses the perspective by looking at the many ways that Haitian migrants intervened in and shaped Quebec society. As the most significant group seen to integrate into francophone Quebec, Haitian migrants introduced new perspectives into a changing public sphere during decades of political turbulence. By turning his attention to the ideas and activities of Haitian taxi drivers, exiled priests, aspiring authors, dissident intellectuals, and feminist activists, Mills reconsiders the historical actors of Quebec intellectual and political life, and challenges the traditional tendency to view migrants as peripheral to Quebec history. Ranging from political economy to discussions about sexuality, A Place in the Sun demonstrates the ways in which Haitian migrants opened new debates, exposed new tensions, and forever altered Quebec society. |
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... P770, S1, D2, C1 -84-022. 180 Protesting racism in the taxi industry, 1983. BANQ-M, P770, S 1, D1-06-83. 187 7.1 Dany Laferrière on the cover of Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer. Courtesy of VLB éditeur. 219.
... P770, S1, D2, C1 -84-022. 180 Protesting racism in the taxi industry, 1983. BANQ-M, P770, S 1, D1-06-83. 187 7.1 Dany Laferrière on the cover of Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer. Courtesy of VLB éditeur. 219.
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... Laferrière helped me to sharpen my analysis. In Haiti, my thanks go to Josué Azor, Giscard Bouchotte, Michel Soukar, and Thor Burnham. In particular, I am grateful to Bertrand and Edwige Roy for housing me, as well as to Jean-Euphèle ...
... Laferrière helped me to sharpen my analysis. In Haiti, my thanks go to Josué Azor, Giscard Bouchotte, Michel Soukar, and Thor Burnham. In particular, I am grateful to Bertrand and Edwige Roy for housing me, as well as to Jean-Euphèle ...
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... Laferrière recounts, When I arrived in Montreal I fell right away into the national debate: that of language. Only five hours earlier I had left the fierce debate about language in Haiti, a debate in which French symbolized the ...
... Laferrière recounts, When I arrived in Montreal I fell right away into the national debate: that of language. Only five hours earlier I had left the fierce debate about language in Haiti, a debate in which French symbolized the ...
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... Laferrière, who eventually became one of Haiti and Quebec's most well-known cultural figures. I look at the importance of sexuality to Quebec's Quiet Revolution and at the multiple ways that the fear and desire of interracial sex shaped ...
... Laferrière, who eventually became one of Haiti and Quebec's most well-known cultural figures. I look at the importance of sexuality to Quebec's Quiet Revolution and at the multiple ways that the fear and desire of interracial sex shaped ...
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