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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... gender. Mobilizing metaphors of the family to make sense of the relationship between French Canadians and Haitians served a particular function. As Anne McClintock explains, “the family offered an indispensable figure for sanctioning ...
... gender. Mobilizing metaphors of the family to make sense of the relationship between French Canadians and Haitians served a particular function. As Anne McClintock explains, “the family offered an indispensable figure for sanctioning ...
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... gender equality, labour conditions, and daily forms of racism. Looking closely at the campaigns of feminists of the Maison d'Haïti to empower marginalized women throughout Montreal and at Haitian taxi drivers working to oppose ongoing ...
... gender equality, labour conditions, and daily forms of racism. Looking closely at the campaigns of feminists of the Maison d'Haïti to empower marginalized women throughout Montreal and at Haitian taxi drivers working to oppose ongoing ...
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... were lived in the intimate spheres of gender and sexuality. Far from being inconsequential, they asked new questions and fostered new debates, exposing fissures and contradictions that remain with us still. Introduction 17.
... were lived in the intimate spheres of gender and sexuality. Far from being inconsequential, they asked new questions and fostered new debates, exposing fissures and contradictions that remain with us still. Introduction 17.
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... gender, but so too was it constructed through understandings of “race.” The term “FrenchCanadian race” remained in common usage until the 1960s and spoke to an understanding of “race” that encompassed cultural, ethnic, and linguistic ...
... gender, but so too was it constructed through understandings of “race.” The term “FrenchCanadian race” remained in common usage until the 1960s and spoke to an understanding of “race” that encompassed cultural, ethnic, and linguistic ...
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... gender norms only added to the sense that civilization could loosen the grip of racialization. As Malouin explained, Haitian women “are devoted, motherly, and willingly volunteer to work for charities. Their initiatives, either as ...
... gender norms only added to the sense that civilization could loosen the grip of racialization. As Malouin explained, Haitian women “are devoted, motherly, and willingly volunteer to work for charities. Their initiatives, either as ...
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