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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... relations – Historiography. I. Title. II. Series: Studies on the history of Quebec; 31 fc2950.h35m54 2016 971.4004'9697294 c2015-906471-6 c2015-906472-4 This book was typeset by Interscript in 10.5/13 Sabon. For my parents, Alan and Pat ...
... relations – Historiography. I. Title. II. Series: Studies on the history of Quebec; 31 fc2950.h35m54 2016 971.4004'9697294 c2015-906471-6 c2015-906472-4 This book was typeset by Interscript in 10.5/13 Sabon. For my parents, Alan and Pat ...
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... relation of power was reversed, with French now representing marginalization and victimization. As novelist Dany Laferrière recounts, When I arrived in Montreal I fell right away into the national debate: that of language. Only five ...
... relation of power was reversed, with French now representing marginalization and victimization. As novelist Dany Laferrière recounts, When I arrived in Montreal I fell right away into the national debate: that of language. Only five ...
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... relations, Haitian migrants began to challenge both the legacy of French-Canadian missionary activity in Haiti and the current nature of foreign aid, which served, they maintained, to support the political regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier ...
... relations, Haitian migrants began to challenge both the legacy of French-Canadian missionary activity in Haiti and the current nature of foreign aid, which served, they maintained, to support the political regime of Jean-Claude Duvalier ...
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... relations and to introduce new arguments about the interconnected histories of Canada, Quebec, and Haiti. Far from being inconsequential, the arguments that they brought forward would have an important influence on Quebec social ...
... relations and to introduce new arguments about the interconnected histories of Canada, Quebec, and Haiti. Far from being inconsequential, the arguments that they brought forward would have an important influence on Quebec social ...
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... relations were lived in the intimate spheres of gender and sexuality. Far from being inconsequential, they asked new questions and fostered new debates, exposing fissures and contradictions that remain with us still. Introduction 17.
... relations were lived in the intimate spheres of gender and sexuality. Far from being inconsequential, they asked new questions and fostered new debates, exposing fissures and contradictions that remain with us still. Introduction 17.
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