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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... Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council ...
... Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. McGill-Queen's University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council ...
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... social movements in Montreal in the 1960s, and I was planning a trip to Haiti. I knew that Haiti and Haitians had played a crucial but unacknowledged role in Quebec's past, and I was intent on learning more. Before I made my travel ...
... social movements in Montreal in the 1960s, and I was planning a trip to Haiti. I knew that Haiti and Haitians had played a crucial but unacknowledged role in Quebec's past, and I was intent on learning more. Before I made my travel ...
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... Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto Connaught New Researchers' Fund, and the Department of History at the University of Toronto for providing research funds. A Jackman Humanities ...
... Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the University of Toronto Connaught New Researchers' Fund, and the Department of History at the University of Toronto for providing research funds. A Jackman Humanities ...
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... social history. This dual discourse on Haiti would prove remarkably persistent in representations of the country and its people. After part 1 examines the development of this dual discourse, part 2 reverses the perspective, turning ...
... social history. This dual discourse on Haiti would prove remarkably persistent in representations of the country and its people. After part 1 examines the development of this dual discourse, part 2 reverses the perspective, turning ...
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... social movements, for example, as well as on the margins of society by those working to theorize their lives, is often pushed to the sidelines of mainstream historical accounts that, through their reinscription of dominant or ...
... social movements, for example, as well as on the margins of society by those working to theorize their lives, is often pushed to the sidelines of mainstream historical accounts that, through their reinscription of dominant or ...
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