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Off-White: The tensions of Whiteness in Quebec

2026/02/03 by Uzma Jamil · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Canadian Identity and History #Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality #Interdisciplinary Cultural and Social Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/1070289x.2026.2617780

openalex publication_date 2026/02/03 · openalex created_date 2026/02/04 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/14

Abstract

This paper focuses on the internal tensions of Whiteness in the dual settler colonial contexts of Quebec and Canada through the relationship between the province as a White, francophone minority/majority and White anglophone Canada. Whiteness in Quebec is mediated through its settler colonial history, language and complexity of its minority/majority position to create an off-white Quebec national identity. It operates through the racialization of French as a language, from its White settler colonial roots to the present-day context of a post-Quiet Revolution society. Despite its specificities, Quebec echoes themes in global configurations of Whiteness and coloniality.

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