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A place in the sun : Haiti, Haitians, and the remaking of Quebec / Sean Mills.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on the history of Quebec ; 31.Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773598478
  • 0773598472
  • 9780773598485
  • 0773598480
  • 9780773546455
  • 0773546456
  • 9780773546448
  • 0773546448
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Place in the sun.:DDC classification:
  • 971.4004/9697294 23
LOC classification:
  • F1055.H34 M55 2016
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
  • coll13
Online resources:
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: PART ONE -- 1. Language, Race, and Power -- 2. Missionaries and Paternalism -- PART TWO -- 3. Poetics of Exile -- 4. Internationalism and the National Question -- 5. Migrants and Borders -- 6. Location of Knowledge -- 7. Sex, Race, and Sovereign Dreams.
Summary: "What is the relationship between migration and politics in Quebec? How did French Canadians' activities in Haiti influence Quebec society? How did Haitian migrants shape debates about language, class, nationalism and sexuality? In exploring these questions, A Place in the Sun breaks new historiographical ground by challenging the traditional tendency to view migrants as peripheral to Quebec history. Mills begins by analyzing French-Canadians' early ideas about Haiti and their forays into the country. Missionaries, nationalist elites, and government officials produced an idea of Haiti as being linked to French Canada, yet fundamentally different from it and in need of its asssitance. The second part of the book reverses the perspective, and Haitians' ideas about Quebec take centre stage. Mills engages with the ideas and activities of taxi drivers, exiled priests, aspiring authors and feminist activists. From global political economy to the intimate realm of sexuality, he argues, Haitian migrants opened up new debates and exposed new tensions, along the way playing a key role in transforming Quebec society."-- Provided by publisher.
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"What is the relationship between migration and politics in Quebec? How did French Canadians' activities in Haiti influence Quebec society? How did Haitian migrants shape debates about language, class, nationalism and sexuality? In exploring these questions, A Place in the Sun breaks new historiographical ground by challenging the traditional tendency to view migrants as peripheral to Quebec history. Mills begins by analyzing French-Canadians' early ideas about Haiti and their forays into the country. Missionaries, nationalist elites, and government officials produced an idea of Haiti as being linked to French Canada, yet fundamentally different from it and in need of its asssitance. The second part of the book reverses the perspective, and Haitians' ideas about Quebec take centre stage. Mills engages with the ideas and activities of taxi drivers, exiled priests, aspiring authors and feminist activists. From global political economy to the intimate realm of sexuality, he argues, Haitian migrants opened up new debates and exposed new tensions, along the way playing a key role in transforming Quebec society."-- Provided by publisher.

Machine generated contents note: PART ONE -- 1. Language, Race, and Power -- 2. Missionaries and Paternalism -- PART TWO -- 3. Poetics of Exile -- 4. Internationalism and the National Question -- 5. Migrants and Borders -- 6. Location of Knowledge -- 7. Sex, Race, and Sovereign Dreams.

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