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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... -M, P770, S1, D2, C1 -84-022. 180 Protesting racism in the taxi industry, 1983. BANQ-M, P770, S 1, D1-06-83. 187 7.1 Dany Laferrière on the cover of Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer. Courtesy of VLB éditeur. 219.
... -M, P770, S1, D2, C1 -84-022. 180 Protesting racism in the taxi industry, 1983. BANQ-M, P770, S 1, D1-06-83. 187 7.1 Dany Laferrière on the cover of Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer. Courtesy of VLB éditeur. 219.
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... taxi industry had developed into a full-blown crisis. Haitian taxi drivers were being refused work or being fired en masse by companies catering to white clients who requested not to ride with black drivers. When Dorval Airport changed its ...
... taxi industry had developed into a full-blown crisis. Haitian taxi drivers were being refused work or being fired en masse by companies catering to white clients who requested not to ride with black drivers. When Dorval Airport changed its ...
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... taxi industry. When poorer migrants began arriving in the 1970s, they also – although building on a very different set of experiences – contributed to ongoing movements contesting Quebec's future and their place within it. Haitian ...
... taxi industry. When poorer migrants began arriving in the 1970s, they also – although building on a very different set of experiences – contributed to ongoing movements contesting Quebec's future and their place within it. Haitian ...
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... taxi drivers, feminists, left Catholic Haitian priests, and others. To make sense of the ideas and politics of grassroots Haitian activists and thinkers, it is necessary to adopt a new approach to thought and culture. Formal ...
... taxi drivers, feminists, left Catholic Haitian priests, and others. To make sense of the ideas and politics of grassroots Haitian activists and thinkers, it is necessary to adopt a new approach to thought and culture. Formal ...
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... taxi drivers, feminists, and those fighting deportations begin to become legible. In Haiti, French was the language of power and prestige, whereas Creole was the language of everyday use spoken by the vast majority of the population ...
... taxi drivers, feminists, and those fighting deportations begin to become legible. In Haiti, French was the language of power and prestige, whereas Creole was the language of everyday use spoken by the vast majority of the population ...
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