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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... remained the language of everyday life within the community, French was the language through which Haitians would engage with Quebec's intellectual and political spheres. Consequently, and because until the 1980s Creole was generally an ...
... remained the language of everyday life within the community, French was the language through which Haitians would engage with Quebec's intellectual and political spheres. Consequently, and because until the 1980s Creole was generally an ...
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... argued, acted as distinct markers of identity that set French Canadians apart from other North Americans.10 French Canada's intellectual structures always remained multifaceted and internally Language, Race, and Power 25.
... argued, acted as distinct markers of identity that set French Canadians apart from other North Americans.10 French Canada's intellectual structures always remained multifaceted and internally Language, Race, and Power 25.
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... remained multifaceted and internally contested, with various strains of liberal and radical thought shaping the cultural landscape, but throughout the 1930s conservative ideas predominated, and they focused on the idea of national ...
... remained multifaceted and internally contested, with various strains of liberal and radical thought shaping the cultural landscape, but throughout the 1930s conservative ideas predominated, and they focused on the idea of national ...
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... the two cannot be conflated, as Haiti has also always had a black elite that has historically stood in an antagonistic relationship to the peasantry. Although Haiti remained divided along many axes, one of the 28 A Place in the Sun.
... the two cannot be conflated, as Haiti has also always had a black elite that has historically stood in an antagonistic relationship to the peasantry. Although Haiti remained divided along many axes, one of the 28 A Place in the Sun.
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Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec Sean Mills. Although Haiti remained divided along many axes, one of the central cleavages pitted those who lived in the countryside against those who lived in the city, as well as those who ...
Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec Sean Mills. Although Haiti remained divided along many axes, one of the central cleavages pitted those who lived in the countryside against those who lived in the city, as well as those who ...
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