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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... United States, or even closer, in our own city of Montreal, to see that there's a long and arduous road to travel before the nègre achieves genuine and full equality with other races.” Haitians, he maintained, were involved in the ...
... United States, or even closer, in our own city of Montreal, to see that there's a long and arduous road to travel before the nègre achieves genuine and full equality with other races.” Haitians, he maintained, were involved in the ...
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... United States or France for education or in search of a better life, migration has long formed part of Haitian life.6 But emigration from Haiti took on new importance with the rise to power of François Duvalier in 1957. Duvalier came to ...
... United States or France for education or in search of a better life, migration has long formed part of Haitian life.6 But emigration from Haiti took on new importance with the rise to power of François Duvalier in 1957. Duvalier came to ...
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... united French Canada and Haiti at the Congress on the French Language in Canada, held in Quebec City in 1937, and to the proliferation of connections that were built between the two societies during the Second World War. During the war ...
... united French Canada and Haiti at the Congress on the French Language in Canada, held in Quebec City in 1937, and to the proliferation of connections that were built between the two societies during the Second World War. During the war ...
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... united around the belief that together they could form the “francophone Americas,” as they were connected by culture, language, religion, and history. However, just as the idea that French Canada and Haiti were “brother” or “sister ...
... united around the belief that together they could form the “francophone Americas,” as they were connected by culture, language, religion, and history. However, just as the idea that French Canada and Haiti were “brother” or “sister ...
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... United States (with the vast majority going to the latter). Against this backdrop, French-Canadian nationalism – which imagined the nation as stretching far beyond the boundaries of the province of Quebec – sought to valorize the idea ...
... United States (with the vast majority going to the latter). Against this backdrop, French-Canadian nationalism – which imagined the nation as stretching far beyond the boundaries of the province of Quebec – sought to valorize the idea ...
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A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec Sean Mills No preview available - 2016 |
A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec Sean Mills No preview available - 2016 |
A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec Sean Mills No preview available - 2016 |
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