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TITLE: A Distinct Alien Race: The Untold Story of Franco-Americans (2018)
AUTHOR: David G. Vermette
ISBN-13: 9781771861496
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DESCRIPTION: Americans don’t think of Canada as a source of potential terrorists - speaking a foreign tongue, serving a foreign religion, and invading their country. But when a million French-Canadians crossed the border between 1840 and 1930, many seeking work in New England’s burgeoning textile industry, they were cast as foot soldiers in an alleged Roman Catholic plot.

"A Distinct Alien Race" places these Franco-Americans in the context of contemporary issues: the rise and fall of manufacturing in the U.S.; Nativism and the fear of the Other; emigration to the U.S. across land borders; and the construction of race. Vermette traces individuals and families, from the textile barons whose profits in the Caribbean and China trades financed a new industry, to the rural poor of Québec who crowded into fetid tenements after the Civil War. His social history exposes the anti-Franco-American agitation of Protestant clergy, the Ku Klux Klan, and the eugenics movement.

BRIEF CONTENTS:
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INTRODUCTION
PROLOGUE - A Sprint Through 250 Years of History

SECTION ONE - From Ships’ Captains to Captains of Industry
 1. Head of the Mercantile Community of Boston
 2. A Textile Industry for New England
 3. Enter The Cabots
 4. Textiles in Brunswick - The First Half-Century

SECTION TWO - The Other Side of the Cotton
 5. Franco-Americans Rescue King Cotton
 6. Franco-Americans Come to Brunswick
 7. The Case of the Cabot Mill
 8. A Rich Uncle from the States?
 9. Who Were the Immigrants?
 10. They Came from L’Islet

SECTION THREE - The Reception of Franco-Americans
 11. Franco-Americans and Americanism
 12. Fears of Franco-American Conspiracy
 13. Eugenics and the Alien in Our Midst
 14. A Klan For New England

SECTION FOUR - Tenacity and Modernity
 15. Textiles Go South
 16. Drifting Away from Little Canada in Body and Mind
 17. A Distinct Alien Race No Longer
 18. Franco-Americans and Québécois

EPILOGUE - Back to the Cemetery
CHAPTER NOTES
INDEX