The Struggle of Others: Pierre Vallières, Quebecois Settler Nationalism, and the N-Word Today

Keila B.

This factsheet is a snapshot of Cornellier's argument that Pierre Vallière, a journalist and Quebecois nationalist, turns race into an acquirable and politically insignificant category in Québec by conflating British domination of French Quebeckers with to slavery in his 1968 autobiography Nè**** Blancs d’Amérique. This disregards the fact that the Quebecois project of national liberation is founded on Indigenous dispossession.

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References

Cornellier, Bruno. "The Struggle of Others: Pierre Valliéres, Quebecois Settler Nationalism, and the N-Word Today.” Discourse 39.1 (Winter 2017): 31-66.

Source Authors

Bruno Cornellier

Keywords

2013 Charter of Secularism, Autobiography, Black Struggle, Cultural Appropriation, Debit System of Suffering, Delivering Otherness, Dismissal, Drive Toward Unaccountability, Empathy, Francophone Quebecois, Governmental Belonging (Allant de soil), Hegemony, Ignorance, Indigenous Struggle, Les habitants, Myth of Colonized Quebec, Quebecois, Quebecois Settler Nationalism, Race, Settler Colony, Settler Common Sense, Settler Structure of Feeling, Structure of feeling, Systemic Racial Discrimination, The Epidermalization of Inferiority, The Literary Method, White Privilege

Locations

Quebec