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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... other races.” Haitians, he maintained, were involved in the broader struggle of black people everywhere to finally find their “place in the sun.”1 Over the past fifty years, immigration has frequently been the Introduction.
... other races.” Haitians, he maintained, were involved in the broader struggle of black people everywhere to finally find their “place in the sun.”1 Over the past fifty years, immigration has frequently been the Introduction.
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... maintaining that these forms of dehumanization were not part of a natural order but were the products of history. As such, they were not stable or permanent but could be changed through action.15 The book's third argument is that the ...
... maintaining that these forms of dehumanization were not part of a natural order but were the products of history. As such, they were not stable or permanent but could be changed through action.15 The book's third argument is that the ...
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... maintaining the importance of connecting pre-1960 government and missionary interactions with the post-1960 history of migration.16 In the face of ongoing racial discrimination, Haitian activists, like other social groups with whom ...
... maintaining the importance of connecting pre-1960 government and missionary interactions with the post-1960 history of migration.16 In the face of ongoing racial discrimination, Haitian activists, like other social groups with whom ...
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... maintained, to support the political regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier (who came to power after the death of his father in 1971). Debates about Quebec's place in the world could not be untangled from the province's continued existence ...
... maintained, to support the political regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier (who came to power after the death of his father in 1971). Debates about Quebec's place in the world could not be untangled from the province's continued existence ...
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... maintained a fraught relationship with the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican did not recognize postrevolution Haiti until after the signing of a concordat in 1860 that gave the church an official presence in the country and granted it ...
... maintained a fraught relationship with the Roman Catholic Church. The Vatican did not recognize postrevolution Haiti until after the signing of a concordat in 1860 that gave the church an official presence in the country and granted it ...
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