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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... sought to make sense of the influence of Western powers on Haiti's internal developments, I wanted to do the reverse, to look at how Haiti and Haitian migrants had influenced and shaped the development of a society in the “West.” At ...
... sought to make sense of the influence of Western powers on Haiti's internal developments, I wanted to do the reverse, to look at how Haiti and Haitian migrants had influenced and shaped the development of a society in the “West.” At ...
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... sought their own place in the sun. Seeing themselves as the bearers of civilization, these missionaries produced narratives of non-Western peoples that circulated back to Quebec, influencing cultural attitudes that would persist for ...
... sought their own place in the sun. Seeing themselves as the bearers of civilization, these missionaries produced narratives of non-Western peoples that circulated back to Quebec, influencing cultural attitudes that would persist for ...
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... sought to oppose and transform the negative stereotypes and dehumanization that they faced, both in society at large and within their own communities. To do so, they sought to change the terms of debate and to oppose the idea that the ...
... sought to oppose and transform the negative stereotypes and dehumanization that they faced, both in society at large and within their own communities. To do so, they sought to change the terms of debate and to oppose the idea that the ...
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... sought a broader program of social change, one that was fuelled by a wide array of differing political rationalities and that often saw itself as much in international as in national terms. Through the exploration of the intellectual ...
... sought a broader program of social change, one that was fuelled by a wide array of differing political rationalities and that often saw itself as much in international as in national terms. Through the exploration of the intellectual ...
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... sought to rewrite some of the dominant tropes of anti-colonial writing in Quebec and to reimagine the symbolic geographies of Montreal. Throughout this book I aim to demonstrate that, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Quebec society was was ...
... sought to rewrite some of the dominant tropes of anti-colonial writing in Quebec and to reimagine the symbolic geographies of Montreal. Throughout this book I aim to demonstrate that, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Quebec society was was ...
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