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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... political campaign and reflected on art, politics, and philosophy. In the pages of the journal, Serge Lubin argued that what was at stake in the various political campaigns that they were waging was nothing less than an assertion of ...
... political campaign and reflected on art, politics, and philosophy. In the pages of the journal, Serge Lubin argued that what was at stake in the various political campaigns that they were waging was nothing less than an assertion of ...
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... politics. One of the book's premises is that to fully understand the period after 1960, when increasing numbers of migrants from the global south began arriving in Quebec and asserting themselves in its political and cultural spheres ...
... politics. One of the book's premises is that to fully understand the period after 1960, when increasing numbers of migrants from the global south began arriving in Quebec and asserting themselves in its political and cultural spheres ...
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... political debate in the province. By looking at the diverse ways that Haitian migrants thought about and intervened in Quebec's public sphere, I hope to offer new insight into the province's political and intellectual traditions ...
... political debate in the province. By looking at the diverse ways that Haitian migrants thought about and intervened in Quebec's public sphere, I hope to offer new insight into the province's political and intellectual traditions ...
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... political traditions from Haiti, but they also adapted these ideas and reshaped them in their new environment. Largely because of the upsurge in poorer and less skilled migrants, by the mid-1970s more immigrants were arriving in Quebec ...
... political traditions from Haiti, but they also adapted these ideas and reshaped them in their new environment. Largely because of the upsurge in poorer and less skilled migrants, by the mid-1970s more immigrants were arriving in Quebec ...
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... political exiles and intellectuals, it is therefore also necessary to explore the intellectual and political worlds of nonstatus migrants, domestic servants, taxi drivers, feminists, left Catholic Haitian priests, and others. To make ...
... political exiles and intellectuals, it is therefore also necessary to explore the intellectual and political worlds of nonstatus migrants, domestic servants, taxi drivers, feminists, left Catholic Haitian priests, and others. To make ...
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