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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mills, Sean, 1978- author.

Series:

Studies on the history of Quebec ; 31.

Études d'histoire du Québec = Studies on the history of Quebec ; 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haitians--Québec (Province)--Historiography.

Haitians.

Immigrants--Québec (Province)--Historiography.

Immigrants.

Historiography.

Québec (Province)--Ethnic relations--Historiography.

Québec (Province).

Physical Description:

xiv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.

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.

Contents:

Part 1

1 Language, Race, and Power 21

2 Missionaries and Paternalism 51

Part 2

3 The Poetics of Exile 77

4 Internationalism and the National Question 109

5 Migrants and Borders 133

6 The Location of Knowledge 166

7 Sex, Race, and Sovereign Dreams 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-297) and index.

Other Format:

Mills, Sean, 1978-, author. Place in the sun.

ISBN:

9780773546448

0773546448

9780773546455

0773546456

OCLC:

920018112