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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... humanity, a redefinition of life from the vantage point of the oppressed. “As for those who want to say that racial discrimination is ancient history,” he wrote “I invite them to look at what's happening in South Africa or, closer to us ...
... humanity, a redefinition of life from the vantage point of the oppressed. “As for those who want to say that racial discrimination is ancient history,” he wrote “I invite them to look at what's happening in South Africa or, closer to us ...
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... human character of our civilization.”1 With France in crisis, Haiti symbolized the enduring nature of French culture, and the ties that French Canadians developed with Haiti helped to demonstrate that their society, rather than being ...
... human character of our civilization.”1 With France in crisis, Haiti symbolized the enduring nature of French culture, and the ties that French Canadians developed with Haiti helped to demonstrate that their society, rather than being ...
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... human races,” and he said that it was “an honour for Canada to maintain relations with a people that has achieved such great things, in the spiritual, material, intellectual, moral and economic realms.” Haiti, Audet declared, could ...
... human races,” and he said that it was “an honour for Canada to maintain relations with a people that has achieved such great things, in the spiritual, material, intellectual, moral and economic realms.” Haiti, Audet declared, could ...
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... human being – in direct relation to his mastery of the French language.”34 This same representation of the French language – particularly Parisian French – as the embodiment of whiteness and civilization was continually articulated at ...
... human being – in direct relation to his mastery of the French language.”34 This same representation of the French language – particularly Parisian French – as the embodiment of whiteness and civilization was continually articulated at ...
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