| A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec Volume 31 Contributor(s): Mills, Sean (Author) |
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ISBN: 0773546456 ISBN-13: 9780773546455 Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2016 Click for more in this series: Studies on the History of Quebec/?tudes d'Histoire Du Quebec |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) - Social Science | Black Studies (global) |
| Dewey: 971.400 |
| Series: Studies on the History of Quebec/?tudes d'Histoire Du Quebec |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (1.05 lbs) 330 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
| Features: Bibliography, Index |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mills, Sean: - CA |
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