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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... throughout Haiti with the Rencontres québécoises en Haïti, in which he generously invited me to participate. His unwavering belief in the transformative possibilities of culture has been an inspiration. Stéphane Martelly invited me to ...
... throughout Haiti with the Rencontres québécoises en Haïti, in which he generously invited me to participate. His unwavering belief in the transformative possibilities of culture has been an inspiration. Stéphane Martelly invited me to ...
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... throughout the Caribbean, as well as in Miami, New York, Boston, Paris, and Montreal.7 Like the dualistic thinking that had structured French-Canadian understandings of Haitians in the pre-1960 period, the dual ways of understanding ...
... throughout the Caribbean, as well as in Miami, New York, Boston, Paris, and Montreal.7 Like the dualistic thinking that had structured French-Canadian understandings of Haitians in the pre-1960 period, the dual ways of understanding ...
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... throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Haiti became one of the most important sites of French-Canadian missionary activity in the world. The idea that Haitians were children in need of the firm but loving guidance of ...
... throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Haiti became one of the most important sites of French-Canadian missionary activity in the world. The idea that Haitians were children in need of the firm but loving guidance of ...
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... Throughout the fall of 1974, roughly 1,500 nonstatus Haitians feared that they were to be deported and that their lives were in danger. By taking their movement to the broader public, they mobilized opposition to the deportations and ...
... Throughout the fall of 1974, roughly 1,500 nonstatus Haitians feared that they were to be deported and that their lives were in danger. By taking their movement to the broader public, they mobilized opposition to the deportations and ...
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... throughout Montreal and at Haitian taxi drivers working to oppose ongoing racism in the taxi industry, this chapter attempts to rethink the meaning of the “intellectual” with reference to alternative sites where thought and culture have ...
... throughout Montreal and at Haitian taxi drivers working to oppose ongoing racism in the taxi industry, this chapter attempts to rethink the meaning of the “intellectual” with reference to alternative sites where thought and culture have ...
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