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Taking the societal climate surrounding issues of race and racism in the study of the past as my point of departure, I propose to examine how it translates into the practice of French-language historiography of Canadian and Quebecois societies. Do disciplinary institutions publish on issues of race and racism? This study also responds to historian Geneviève Dorais’ arguments in the Bulletin d’histoire politique in 2020 about anti-Black racism in Quebec historiography, and to the call by historians Crystal Gail Fraser and Allyson Stevenson for a critical perspective on our discipline in the post-Truth and Reconciliation Commission era. This paper consists of four sections. I first sketch out some definitions related to the concepts of race, racism, and ignorance. I then turn to the relationship these questions have with historical epistemology and the role that the discipline of history has played in the history of racism. In the third section, I present the results of my research on francophone-Canadian historical knowledge production in the past few years, which asked the following questions: Is the concept of race present in this disciplinary field? In what way is it used? Finally, I conclude by returning to the results of this study and reflect on what a better understanding of the critical concept of race in historical studies can contribute to our understanding of Quebec and Canada’s past.
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Les archives d'une association missionnaire à Rome conservent des lettres de catholiques du Québec datant des 19e et 20e siècles. Ces fidèles offraient un don d'un, cinq ou vingt-cinq sous pour "acheter un petit Chinois", croyant contribuer ainsi à sauver l'âme d'enfants en besoin de rédemption. Que révèlent ces histoires intimes sur les rapports à la religion, à la colonisation, à soi, à l'autre ?
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L’Œuvre de la Sainte-Enfance connut un succès gigantesque auprès des enfants catholiques canadiens entre les années 1920 et 1960. À travers cette implication missionnaire, les enfants ont été formés à croire en leur capacité de rédemption de l’enfance éloignée. La Sainte-Enfance transformait les enfants lointains en possession, commodités, jeux et personnification à la disposition de l’imagination géographique et émotive des jeunes Canadiens français et Canadiennes françaises. Elle le faisait en s’appuyant sur des techniques pédagogiques et des pratiques antérieures et transnationales de performances racialisées. Comment peut-on donc faire l’histoire de la participation des enfants canadiens-français à cette œuvre en analysant leur propre voix ? Par l’étude d’un corpus de 803 lettres envoyées par des enfants, nous disséquons comment l’Œuvre de la Sainte-Enfance rythmait le quotidien des jeunes Canadiens français et Canadiennes françaises et quel univers de représentations raciales et genrées elle leur offrait.
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Exposing the history of racism in Canada’s classrooms Winner of the prestigious Clio-Quebec, Lionel-Groulx, and Canadian History of Education Association awards In School of Racism, Catherine Larochelle demonstrates how Quebec’s school system has, from its inception and for decades, taught and endorsed colonial domination and racism. This English translation extends its crucial lesson to readers worldwide, bridging English- and French-Canadian histories to deliver a better understanding of Canada’s past and present identity. Guided by postcolonial, antiracist, and feminist theories and methodologies, Larochelle examines late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century classroom materials used in Quebec’s public and private schools. Many of these materials made their way into curricula across the country and contained textual and visual representations that constructed Indigenous, Black, Arab, and Asian peoples as “the Other” while reinforcing the collective identity of Quebec, and Canada more broadly, as white. School of Racism uncovers the ways Canada’s education system has supported and sustained ideologies of white supremacy—ideologies so deeply embedded that they still linger in school texts and programming today. Offering insights into how concepts of nationalism and racism overlap, Larochelle’s innovative analysis helps educators confront discrimination in their classrooms and furthers discussions about race and colonialism in Canada.
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We know that the settler societies known as Quebec and Canada were imperialist during the "new imperialism" era, but do we really know the process through which they became imperialist? During this period, schools provided the geographic knowledge and emotional place-attachment necessary for the consolidation of settler-colonialism. At the same time, youth imagined their future life in an interconnected world geography that they believed belonged to them. My article aims to understand how geographical knowledge—imperial, missionary, and literary—was transmitted to young people through the school system and how they integrated and appropriated this geographical imagination.
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An article from Études d'histoire religieuse, on Érudit.
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This article addresses one of the central questions that has animated the field of children's history in recent years: how to go beyond the paradigm of agentivity in the interpretation of the evidences left by children? What interpretative schemes are proposed to replace it? Before addressing this issue and the archival and methodological challenges inherent to it, we propose an overview of the field of children's history. The goal is to offer a French-speaking readership an overview of some of the epistemological reflections that animate this branch of the historical discipline. Exploring themes such as the relationship between voice, experience, emotion and agentivity, the process of constructing the narrative of childhood through archives, and the benefits of transnational perspectives, this text is a plea for a renewal of children's history in the francophone world.
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Les auteur.e.s posent les jalons d’un projet de recherche historique qui vise à étudier la culture coloniale euroquébécoise à partir de l’étude de la circulation de récits mettant en scène le missionnaire du Nord-Ouest canadien. L’historiographie internationale et canadienne de l’impérialisme a connu un renouvellement profond au cours des dernières décennies. Elle a révélé le rôle crucial des expériences impériales dans la construction des cultures nationales métropolitaines. Cette culture coloniale n’a pas fait l’objet d’une analyse systématique en ce qui concerne la société québécoise. Les auteur.e.s indiquent certaines raisons qui expliquent ce décalage avant de montrer que le sud du Québec peut pourtant être pensé comme une métropole reliée socialement et discursivement à diverses périphéries. Ils avancent de plus que le Québec évoluait à l’intérieur d’une vaste culture transimpériale et transconfessionnelle. Finalement, ils proposent que la propagande missionnaire produite par les Oblats de Marie-Immaculée dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle constitue une source pertinente pour l’étude de la culture coloniale québécoise.