Ebook: The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal
Author: Sean Mills
- Tags: 1963-1972, Activisme, activisme, Activistes--Canada--Montréal (Canada)--20e siècle, Activistes--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Histoire--20e siècle, Activité politique, Années 1960, Années soixante (Vingtième siècle), Décolonisation, Histoire, mouvement politique, Mouvement social, mouvement social, Mouvements sociaux--Canada--Montréal (Canada)--20e siècle, Mouvements sociaux--Québec (Province)--Montréal--Histoire--20e siècle, Political activists--Québec (Province)--Montréal--History--20th century, post-coloniali
- Series: Studies on the history of Quebec / Études d'histoire du Québec 23
- Year: 2010
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- City: Montréal
- Language: English
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Acknowledgments; Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE 1963-1968 1 Empire, Democracy, and Montreal; 2 The Antecedents; 3 The International Dimension of Resistance Illustrations PART TWO 1968-1972 4 Montreal's Black Renaissance; 5 Quebecoises deboutte!; 6 The Language of Liberation; 7 The CSN, the FLQ, and the October Crisis; 8 Labour, Empire, and May 1972 Conclusion: May Day, 1973 Notes; Bibliography; Index.;"How did a First World urban population come to imagine itself as part of a global anti-colonial movement? "The Empire Within" tackles this and other paradoxes created by the surprising power and influence of Third World decolonisation on the political activism in 1960s Montreal. In a brilliant history of a turbulent time and place, Mills pulls back the curtain on the decade's activists and intellectuals, showing their engagement both with each other and with people from around the world. He demonstrates how activists of different backgrounds and with different political aims drew on ideas of decolonisation to rethink the meanings attached to the politics of sex, race, and class and to imagine themselves as part of a broad transnational movement of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist resistance. The temporary unity forged around ideas of decolonisation came undone in the 1970s, however, as many were forced to come to terms with the contradictions and ambiguities of applying ideas of decolonisation in Quebec. From linguistic debates to labour unions, and from the political activities of citizens in the city's poorest neighbourhoods to its Caribbean intellectuals, "The Empire Within" is a political tour of Montreal that reconsiders the meaning and legacy of the city's dissident traditions. It is also a fascinating chapter in the history of postcolonial thought."--Page 4 de la couv.
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