L’antiracisme au Québec : nouvelles solidarités et disqualification sociale

Abstract

The struggles against colonialism, capitalism, white supremacy and heteropatriarchy by Black and Aboriginal movements in Quebec tends to foster new solidarities between these actors, who were previously confined to defending specific demands. By pressing society to adopt a new way of looking at itself, these anti-racist actors are redrawing the internal boundaries of the Quebec civil sphere, not without being the object of rejection through processes of social disqualification that need to be analyzed. The contestation of two plays by Black and Aboriginal actors, and their subsequent cancellation, serve as empirical cases for understanding the values and moral dimensions underlying these processes of disqualification. An analysis of Quebec’s print media also enable us to reconstruct the dynamics of the construction and positioning of left and right in Quebec, and to understand the foundations on which political demarcation lines are reconfigured.

Keywords

• decolonisation
• social justice
• antiracism
• cancel culture
• civil sphere