Category Archives: Academia

  1. The Tree: Vanished

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    October 25, 2014 by LeVoyageur

    In one word, a scholar writing about French Detroit encapsulates conventional thinking about French-Canadian culture on the American side of …
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    Category: Academia, Detroit, French Canadian, Genealogy, History | Tags: , ,

  2. Opportunity and Opportunism: Dueling Narratives of Detroit

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    September 7, 2014 by LeVoyageur

    In some activist and academic communities, the contemporary use of Native American/First Nations imagery is measured on a scale that …
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    Category: Academia, Creative Writing, culture, Detroit, French Canadian, Metis, Native American, Writing | Tags: , , , , , ,

  3. French Canadians and Social Mobility

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    February 23, 2014 by LeVoyageur

    There is a fascinating article, “Your Ancestors, Your Fate,” by economics professor Gregory Davis dated February 21, 2014 in the …
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    Category: Academia, Ethnic Americans, First Nations, French Canadian, Native American | Tags: , , ,

  4. The Limits of Scholarship

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    February 18, 2013 by LeVoyageur

      “Stories–individual stories, family stories, national stories–are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. …
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    Category: Academia, culture, Education, French Canadian, Identity | Tags: , , ,

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