So, I made a decent amount of progress on last week’s goals even though I can’t cross them out as completed. First, I discovered that I could draw out a lot of interview data from handwritten notes, isolating less than four hours of recordings to listen to rather than eight. There’s a long car ride […]
So after my interviews and literature review, I was under the distinct impression that ethnicity did not play a major role in voting patterns, especially in the case of Haitians. There was a lot of backlash from the community when Jacques Parizeau, then leader of Quebec and the Parti Québécois, stated infamously that it was […]
Last time I met with my advisor I got assigned the revision of my thesis, as in the revision of the major claim to be supported in the up-to-100-pages of the eventual paper thesis. For this I had to read two articles. The first, the Rouse article, takes my topic from a comparative […]
I realized today in the middle of doing some other class’s reading that it would be really easy to argue that Haitian Montrealers/Haitians in Montreal/haïtiano-québécois have a distinct nationalism that has developed out of their experiences as Haitians and as Montrealers without leaning one way or the other. Admittedly, I need a better, deeper […]
Seriously, it’s not good to procrastinate, even if it’s unintentional. Sometimes time can pretend to be stretchier than it truly is, leaving people like me caught at the edge of a cliff when they should have already built the bridge to walk across. I’ve got research on the SNP - several notes files exist in […]