Author "A Distinct Alien Race," researcher, editor, musician. https://xitter.cf/t.co/sgk2zvmtuH
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Enfin! Aujourd’hui voit le lancement de la traduction française de mon livre. En 2015, j’ai dit que l’objectif était de le publier en français comme en anglais et que je voulais que Les éditions du Septentrion soit l’éditeur de cette traduction. Après neuf ans, le voici ! #AmFr
Tweeters speak as though "boomers" were born into a contextless world with perfect info and perfect agency to create any world they wished ex nihilo and met on alternate Tuesdays to twirl their evil mustaches while "pulling the ladder up." Delusion. Nothing like that happened.
Regarding recent Québécois discourse: I wrote a book that explored the history of the class and racial status of French Canadians. I present evidence & attempted a fair-minded assessment. But I think most tweeters just want to keep their prejudices intact.
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Every self-identified Marxist (or non-Marxist) with an interest in the historical class dynamics and racial position of the French Canadians should read A Distinct Alien Race/Une race d'étrangers.
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Lewiston is a former industrial town where the largest cohort are of French-Canadian descent, the descendants of textile mill workers. When the French-Canadians came in the 1865-1930 period, people said they were "half-savage" and were replacing the "real" white people.
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On peut tout lire à ce sujet dans ce livre.
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I am going to be on the NPR radio call-in show "Maine Calling" tomorrow (3/23) at 11 A.M. to Noon. We will discuss immigrants to that state and the reception they received there. I'll be speaking to the Franco-American story there, of course.
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#NPR #Maine
The graphs showing housing prices vs. real income are missing a variable: interest rates. In 1981, rates rose to near 19%. It was incredibly expensive to borrow money back then. And 1981-82 also saw 11% unemployment and inflation at 10%. The worst economy since the 1930s. (1)
The problem with the generational battle over "who had it worse" is that younger people don't rate the real ups and downs that happened over the decades. They think that the whole period from 1945 to 2000 was like a happy 1950s sitcom where everything was easy and wonderful. (2)
There were attempts at repression but that's not why the Little Canadas dissolved. The mills moved elsewhere. Economics called those neighborhoods into existence and when the cheap labor was no longer needed away they went. The F-As followed jobs where English was the language.
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I was interviewed for this CBC article about the recent legislation re: "lost Canadians" and have a couple of (accurate) quotes in it.
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Numero six on the list of my publisher's top ten best-selling titles for 2025.
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If you're an indie scholar who wants to be taken seriously by PhDs then prove you can do the job. 1) Cite your sources impeccably. 2) Address the existing literature. 3) Try to get legit academics to review your work (or parts of it). 4) Don't be a crackpot. #scholarship
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@DavidVermette Reçu aujourd’hui. Après avoir regardé quelques-unes de vos conférences, il me le fallait 🙂
Je me suis appuyé sur le travail d'Yvan Lamonde pour éclairer ma recherche sur les origines québécoises des Franco-Américains et le bagage idéologique qu'ils ont apporté avec eux en Nouvelle-Angleterre au 19e siècle. Son travail était perspicace, bien documenté et accessible.
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Une suggestion amicale pour le 12 août. Publié au Québec, au sujet du Québec.
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