Place in the Sun
Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec
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Word Count
82,500 words, Guess
Page Count
330 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28808575M
- ISBN-139780773546455
- OCLC Control Number922140839
- OCLC Control Number920018112
- Internet Archiveplaceinsunhaitih0000mill
Classifications
- LCCF1053
- LCCF1055.H34 M55 2016
Description
"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."--
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- Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec
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