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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... shaped the development of a society in the “West.” At some point in the middle of the project, however, I began to realize that the process of researching and writing this history was having an important effect on me. Haiti is a country ...
... shaped the development of a society in the “West.” At some point in the middle of the project, however, I began to realize that the process of researching and writing this history was having an important effect on me. Haiti is a country ...
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... shaped by a complex form of internationalism, and I maintain that the legacies of this earlier period continued to influence the cultural climate in which migrants arrived in the post-1960 period.3 Of all countries of the global south ...
... shaped by a complex form of internationalism, and I maintain that the legacies of this earlier period continued to influence the cultural climate in which migrants arrived in the post-1960 period.3 Of all countries of the global south ...
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... shaped by the crossing of cultural boundaries as well as by the participation of those who have been assumed to be of marginal importance. This book is therefore also about how we understand politics, ideas, and who counts as ...
... shaped by the crossing of cultural boundaries as well as by the participation of those who have been assumed to be of marginal importance. This book is therefore also about how we understand politics, ideas, and who counts as ...
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... shaped by class and gender. Mobilizing metaphors of the family to make sense of the relationship between French Canadians and Haitians served a particular function. As Anne McClintock explains, “the family offered an indispensable ...
... shaped by class and gender. Mobilizing metaphors of the family to make sense of the relationship between French Canadians and Haitians served a particular function. As Anne McClintock explains, “the family offered an indispensable ...
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... shaped the experiences of Haitians when they migrated to Quebec from the 1960s to the 1980s, but that Haitians also worked to transform these ideas and to assert themselves as creative and political actors in Quebec's rapidly shifting ...
... shaped the experiences of Haitians when they migrated to Quebec from the 1960s to the 1980s, but that Haitians also worked to transform these ideas and to assert themselves as creative and political actors in Quebec's rapidly shifting ...
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