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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... effect on me. Haiti is a country that leaves few people indifferent, and through my years of engaging both with Haiti and with Haitians in Quebec, I have gained a deeper appreciation for the instability of history, the politics of ...
... effect on me. Haiti is a country that leaves few people indifferent, and through my years of engaging both with Haiti and with Haitians in Quebec, I have gained a deeper appreciation for the instability of history, the politics of ...
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... effect social change. Unlike in other sites of the diaspora, Haitians arrived in Quebec as racial minorities within a society largely composed of a linguistic minority in North America, and they arrived at a time when Quebec was ...
... effect social change. Unlike in other sites of the diaspora, Haitians arrived in Quebec as racial minorities within a society largely composed of a linguistic minority in North America, and they arrived at a time when Quebec was ...
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... effect social change has constricted since the 1980s, the legacy of the period lives on in the grassroots groups fighting deportations, in Haitian literature, art, and music, and in the transformed fabric of everyday life. Historical ...
... effect social change has constricted since the 1980s, the legacy of the period lives on in the grassroots groups fighting deportations, in Haitian literature, art, and music, and in the transformed fabric of everyday life. Historical ...
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... effects have been the ongoing attempts to shape its meaning and memory. Seen to mark the beginning of the subordination of French Canadians within a broader British-dominated political structure, the Conquest is remembered as one of the ...
... effects have been the ongoing attempts to shape its meaning and memory. Seen to mark the beginning of the subordination of French Canadians within a broader British-dominated political structure, the Conquest is remembered as one of the ...
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... effect. At the congress and in its aftermath, FrenchCanadian writers began describing the relationship between the two societies in the same terms that the Haitian delegates had used, imagining Haiti as part of a broader family of ...
... effect. At the congress and in its aftermath, FrenchCanadian writers began describing the relationship between the two societies in the same terms that the Haitian delegates had used, imagining Haiti as part of a broader family of ...
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