Darryl Leroux
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Darryl Leroux |
| GIVEN NAMES | Darryl |
| FAMILY NAME | Leroux |
| SIGNATURE | LEROUX D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Mary's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Proximity, Family Lore, and False Claims to an Algonquin Identity
This article examines the type of family lore that leads white Canadians and Americans to claim Indigenous identities. Using a case-study approach, I demonstrate how 2000 descendants of a French-Canadian couple, born in the early 1800s near Montréal, joined one of the largest land claims in Canadian history as “Algonquins”. The tools of critical settler family history provide the necessary theoretical scaffolding to unpack how genealogical and ge…
State Recognition and the Dangers of Race Shifting
A detailed analysis of their claims demonstrates that the tribes are not Abenaki, but instead, represent the descendants of French Canadians who immigrated to the Champlain Valley of northwestern Vermont in the mid-nineteenth century. In this case study of what the anthropologist Circe Sturm has called “race shifting,” I demonstrate how the politics of recognition, which do not include the kin-making and relations of Indigenous nations, serve the…
Bois-Brûlés: Inventing an Indigenous People in Algonquin Territory
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity
“Eastern Métis” Studies and White Settler Colonialism Today
Aspirational Descent and the Creation of Family Lore: Race Shifting in the Northeast
This article builds on work examining how hundreds of thousands of white French descendants in the northeastern part of the continent have been shifting into “Indigenous” identities in the past two decades or so. The first part of the paper explains the workings of “aspirational descent,” that is, when a French woman from the 1600s is turned into an “Indigenous” ancestor for the purpose of claiming indigeneity in the present. The second part of t…
Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity
Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined "Indigenous" identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi-generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French-descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 3…
We’ve been here for 2,000 years’: White settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization
Relying on a populace well-educated in family history based in ancestral genealogy, a robust national genomics sector has developed in Québec over the past decade-and-a-half. The same period roughly coincides with a fourfold increase in the number of individuals and organizations in the region self-identifying with a mixed-race form of indigeneity that is counter to existing Indigenous understandings of kinship and citizenship. This paper examine…
The settler-colonial imagination: Comparing commemoration in Saskatchewan and in Québec
The authors present a comparative analysis of the Saskatchewan Centennial celebrations (2005) and the Québec quatercentenary celebrations (2008) informed by critical race theory, cultural studies, and studies of commemoration as overarching frameworks of analysis. This collaborative work considers two sites rarely analyzed together and examines how these major commemorative events narrate and represent relations among settlers and Indigenous peop…
White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere: The Evocation of Métissage in Quebec and Nova Scotia
Le Grand Livre De Champlain: Cartography, Colonialism and Commemoration in the French Atlantic
This essay presents empirical material from a research project examining cultural ties between France and Québec. In particular, I turn to an exhibit developed in western France in 2004 and eventually displayed four years later during the commemorative events marking Québec's 400th anniversary. By employing an analytical framework at the intersection of historical geography and critical race theory, I tease out the ways in which an exhibit markin…
Métis: Race, recognition, and the struggle for Indigenous peoplehood by Chris Andersen (review)
A genealogist's paradise: France, Québec and the genealogics of race
Genealogy, or the study of one's ancestral patri-lineage, has a long and esteemed pedigree in French Canadian and Québécois history. From Cyprien Tanguay's late-nineteenth-century encyclopedias to René Jetté's updated versions more than a century later, genealogy has been an important component of French Canadian nationalisms. Tracing one's ancestry back to the early St. Lawrence settlement in the seventeenth century has provided Québécois subjec…
Entrenching Euro-Settlerism: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Nationalism in Québec
Entrenching Euro-Settlerism:Multiculturalism and the Politics of Nationalism in Québec Darryl Leroux (bio) "I'm Talking Language" (But Not Race) In my admittedly open reading of Eve Haque's remarkable study, she casts a light on the many frayed threads hanging from the bilingualism/multiculturalism discourse in Canada; threads that beg unraveling since their apparent coherence masks a reformulation of national belonging that codifies the racializ…
Introduction: Reflections on Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework
Introduction:Reflections on Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework Darryl Leroux (bio) and Malinda S. Smith (bio) This review dossier focuses on Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework: Language, Race, and Belonging in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012) by Eve Haque, an associate professor of Applied Linguistics in the Departments of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University. It began as an "Author M…
Québec in France: Towards an understanding of the trans-Atlantic French-Québec subject
This paper examines the events commemorating the 400th anniversary of the founding of Québec City in 2008 and, in particular, the ways in which the Québec 400 was celebrated in Western France. The author argues that the events provide an instance of trans-Atlantic subject formation. Through analyzing a series of public events that took place in the La Rochelle region of France in 2008, the author argues that this extra-national raciality was cons…
Québec Nationalism and the Production of Difference: The Bouchard-Taylor Commission, the Hérouxville Code of Conduct, and Québec's Immigrant Integration Policy
Sunera Thobani, Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
Studies in the Making of Race andNation in Canada is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of critical Canadian Studies.Thobani develops an exciting theoretical framework for explicating the relationship between national and racial subject formation that productively builds on the works of Canadian scholars such as Himani Bannerji, Sherene Razack, and Eva Mackey.What Thobani calls the "exaltation process" (the process delineating the …
White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere: The Evocation of Métissage in Quebec and Nova Scotia
We’ve been here for 2,000 years’: White settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization
Relying on a populace well-educated in family history based in ancestral genealogy, a robust national genomics sector has developed in Québec over the past decade-and-a-half. The same period roughly coincides with a fourfold increase in the number of individuals and organizations in the region self-identifying with a mixed-race form of indigeneity that is counter to existing Indigenous understandings of kinship and citizenship. This paper examine…
A genealogist's paradise: France, Québec and the genealogics of race
Genealogy, or the study of one's ancestral patri-lineage, has a long and esteemed pedigree in French Canadian and Québécois history. From Cyprien Tanguay's late-nineteenth-century encyclopedias to René Jetté's updated versions more than a century later, genealogy has been an important component of French Canadian nationalisms. Tracing one's ancestry back to the early St. Lawrence settlement in the seventeenth century has provided Québécois subjec…
Québec in France: Towards an understanding of the trans-Atlantic French-Québec subject
This paper examines the events commemorating the 400th anniversary of the founding of Québec City in 2008 and, in particular, the ways in which the Québec 400 was celebrated in Western France. The author argues that the events provide an instance of trans-Atlantic subject formation. Through analyzing a series of public events that took place in the La Rochelle region of France in 2008, the author argues that this extra-national raciality was cons…
Entrenching Euro-Settlerism: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Nationalism in Québec
Entrenching Euro-Settlerism:Multiculturalism and the Politics of Nationalism in Québec Darryl Leroux (bio) "I'm Talking Language" (But Not Race) In my admittedly open reading of Eve Haque's remarkable study, she casts a light on the many frayed threads hanging from the bilingualism/multiculturalism discourse in Canada; threads that beg unraveling since their apparent coherence masks a reformulation of national belonging that codifies the racializ…
The settler-colonial imagination: Comparing commemoration in Saskatchewan and in Québec
The authors present a comparative analysis of the Saskatchewan Centennial celebrations (2005) and the Québec quatercentenary celebrations (2008) informed by critical race theory, cultural studies, and studies of commemoration as overarching frameworks of analysis. This collaborative work considers two sites rarely analyzed together and examines how these major commemorative events narrate and represent relations among settlers and Indigenous peop…
Proximity, Family Lore, and False Claims to an Algonquin Identity
This article examines the type of family lore that leads white Canadians and Americans to claim Indigenous identities. Using a case-study approach, I demonstrate how 2000 descendants of a French-Canadian couple, born in the early 1800s near Montréal, joined one of the largest land claims in Canadian history as “Algonquins”. The tools of critical settler family history provide the necessary theoretical scaffolding to unpack how genealogical and ge…
Sunera Thobani, Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
Studies in the Making of Race andNation in Canada is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of critical Canadian Studies.Thobani develops an exciting theoretical framework for explicating the relationship between national and racial subject formation that productively builds on the works of Canadian scholars such as Himani Bannerji, Sherene Razack, and Eva Mackey.What Thobani calls the "exaltation process" (the process delineating the …
Sunera Thobani, Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
Studies in the Making of Race andNation in Canada is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of critical Canadian Studies.Thobani develops an exciting theoretical framework for explicating the relationship between national and racial subject formation that productively builds on the works of Canadian scholars such as Himani Bannerji, Sherene Razack, and Eva Mackey.What Thobani calls the "exaltation process" (the process delineating the …
Québec Nationalism and the Production of Difference: The Bouchard-Taylor Commission, the Hérouxville Code of Conduct, and Québec's Immigrant Integration Policy
Québec in France: Towards an understanding of the trans-Atlantic French-Québec subject
This paper examines the events commemorating the 400th anniversary of the founding of Québec City in 2008 and, in particular, the ways in which the Québec 400 was celebrated in Western France. The author argues that the events provide an instance of trans-Atlantic subject formation. Through analyzing a series of public events that took place in the La Rochelle region of France in 2008, the author argues that this extra-national raciality was cons…
Entrenching Euro-Settlerism: Multiculturalism and the Politics of Nationalism in Québec
Entrenching Euro-Settlerism:Multiculturalism and the Politics of Nationalism in Québec Darryl Leroux (bio) "I'm Talking Language" (But Not Race) In my admittedly open reading of Eve Haque's remarkable study, she casts a light on the many frayed threads hanging from the bilingualism/multiculturalism discourse in Canada; threads that beg unraveling since their apparent coherence masks a reformulation of national belonging that codifies the racializ…
Introduction: Reflections on Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework
Introduction:Reflections on Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework Darryl Leroux (bio) and Malinda S. Smith (bio) This review dossier focuses on Multiculturalism within a Bilingual Framework: Language, Race, and Belonging in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012) by Eve Haque, an associate professor of Applied Linguistics in the Departments of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at York University. It began as an "Author M…
Métis: Race, recognition, and the struggle for Indigenous peoplehood by Chris Andersen (review)
A genealogist's paradise: France, Québec and the genealogics of race
Genealogy, or the study of one's ancestral patri-lineage, has a long and esteemed pedigree in French Canadian and Québécois history. From Cyprien Tanguay's late-nineteenth-century encyclopedias to René Jetté's updated versions more than a century later, genealogy has been an important component of French Canadian nationalisms. Tracing one's ancestry back to the early St. Lawrence settlement in the seventeenth century has provided Québécois subjec…
Le Grand Livre De Champlain: Cartography, Colonialism and Commemoration in the French Atlantic
This essay presents empirical material from a research project examining cultural ties between France and Québec. In particular, I turn to an exhibit developed in western France in 2004 and eventually displayed four years later during the commemorative events marking Québec's 400th anniversary. By employing an analytical framework at the intersection of historical geography and critical race theory, I tease out the ways in which an exhibit markin…
The settler-colonial imagination: Comparing commemoration in Saskatchewan and in Québec
The authors present a comparative analysis of the Saskatchewan Centennial celebrations (2005) and the Québec quatercentenary celebrations (2008) informed by critical race theory, cultural studies, and studies of commemoration as overarching frameworks of analysis. This collaborative work considers two sites rarely analyzed together and examines how these major commemorative events narrate and represent relations among settlers and Indigenous peop…
White Settler Revisionism and Making Métis Everywhere: The Evocation of Métissage in Quebec and Nova Scotia
We’ve been here for 2,000 years’: White settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization
Relying on a populace well-educated in family history based in ancestral genealogy, a robust national genomics sector has developed in Québec over the past decade-and-a-half. The same period roughly coincides with a fourfold increase in the number of individuals and organizations in the region self-identifying with a mixed-race form of indigeneity that is counter to existing Indigenous understandings of kinship and citizenship. This paper examine…
Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity
“Eastern Métis” Studies and White Settler Colonialism Today
Aspirational Descent and the Creation of Family Lore: Race Shifting in the Northeast
This article builds on work examining how hundreds of thousands of white French descendants in the northeastern part of the continent have been shifting into “Indigenous” identities in the past two decades or so. The first part of the paper explains the workings of “aspirational descent,” that is, when a French woman from the 1600s is turned into an “Indigenous” ancestor for the purpose of claiming indigeneity in the present. The second part of t…
Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity
Distorted Descent examines a social phenomenon that has taken off in the twenty-first century: otherwise white, French descendant settlers in Canada shifting into a self-defined "Indigenous" identity. This study is not about individuals who have been dispossessed by colonial policies, or the multi-generational efforts to reconnect that occur in response. Rather, it is about white, French-descendant people discovering an Indigenous ancestor born 3…
Bois-Brûlés: Inventing an Indigenous People in Algonquin Territory
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
State Recognition and the Dangers of Race Shifting
A detailed analysis of their claims demonstrates that the tribes are not Abenaki, but instead, represent the descendants of French Canadians who immigrated to the Champlain Valley of northwestern Vermont in the mid-nineteenth century. In this case study of what the anthropologist Circe Sturm has called “race shifting,” I demonstrate how the politics of recognition, which do not include the kin-making and relations of Indigenous nations, serve the…
Proximity, Family Lore, and False Claims to an Algonquin Identity
This article examines the type of family lore that leads white Canadians and Americans to claim Indigenous identities. Using a case-study approach, I demonstrate how 2000 descendants of a French-Canadian couple, born in the early 1800s near Montréal, joined one of the largest land claims in Canadian history as “Algonquins”. The tools of critical settler family history provide the necessary theoretical scaffolding to unpack how genealogical and ge…
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