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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... played a crucial but unacknowledged role in Quebec's past, and I was intent on learning more. Before I made my travel plans, the devastating 12 January earthquake struck the country, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and over a million ...
... played a crucial but unacknowledged role in Quebec's past, and I was intent on learning more. Before I made my travel plans, the devastating 12 January earthquake struck the country, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and over a million ...
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... played an active role. The central goal of this book is to offer a new way of thinking about the relationship between migration, history, and politics. One of the book's premises is that to fully understand the period after 1960, when ...
... played an active role. The central goal of this book is to offer a new way of thinking about the relationship between migration, history, and politics. One of the book's premises is that to fully understand the period after 1960, when ...
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... played a central role in organizing historical knowledge about the Caribbean, the so-called First and Third Worlds, and the West.”5 For the Western world in general, Haiti acted as a powerful Other against which ideas of civilization ...
... played a central role in organizing historical knowledge about the Caribbean, the so-called First and Third Worlds, and the West.”5 For the Western world in general, Haiti acted as a powerful Other against which ideas of civilization ...
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... played fundamentally different roles. By seeking to understand and oppose the various forms of power that shaped the world in which they lived, Haitian activists sought to denaturalize them, maintaining that these forms of ...
... played fundamentally different roles. By seeking to understand and oppose the various forms of power that shaped the world in which they lived, Haitian activists sought to denaturalize them, maintaining that these forms of ...
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... played out differently. The struggle to valorize Creole became a major political battle, but Haitians were also apt to overrepresent the “French” nature of the community, aligning it with Quebec nationalist and language politics. The ...
... played out differently. The struggle to valorize Creole became a major political battle, but Haitians were also apt to overrepresent the “French” nature of the community, aligning it with Quebec nationalist and language politics. The ...
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