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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... intellectual home, and my thanks go to its members for various discussions that helped to enrich the project. I am grateful to the group's team grant from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – société et culture, as well as to the Standard ...
... intellectual home, and my thanks go to its members for various discussions that helped to enrich the project. I am grateful to the group's team grant from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – société et culture, as well as to the Standard ...
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... intellectual beings and creators of culture.”2 This marginalization in the present is intimately linked to ... intellectuals sought their own place in the sun. Seeing themselves as the bearers of civilization, these missionaries produced ...
... intellectual beings and creators of culture.”2 This marginalization in the present is intimately linked to ... intellectuals sought their own place in the sun. Seeing themselves as the bearers of civilization, these missionaries produced ...
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... Intellectual exchanges grew, and before long Haiti became one of the most important sites of French-Canadian missionary activity. Constructed as the only French-speaking country in the Americas (although the vast majority of its ...
... Intellectual exchanges grew, and before long Haiti became one of the most important sites of French-Canadian missionary activity. Constructed as the only French-speaking country in the Americas (although the vast majority of its ...
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... intellectual traditions, showing that they have always been shaped by the crossing of cultural boundaries as well as by the participation of those who have been assumed to be of marginal importance. This book is therefore also about how ...
... intellectual traditions, showing that they have always been shaped by the crossing of cultural boundaries as well as by the participation of those who have been assumed to be of marginal importance. This book is therefore also about how ...
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... intellectuals, but this new wave of migrants had far greater difficulty accessing the province's institutions. By 1973–74 the majority of those arriving were Creolophones. Some of the ... intellectual life. In addition to Introduction 7.
... intellectuals, but this new wave of migrants had far greater difficulty accessing the province's institutions. By 1973–74 the majority of those arriving were Creolophones. Some of the ... intellectual life. In addition to Introduction 7.
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