White Niggers of America: The Precocious Autobiography of a Quebec "Terrorist" / Nègres Blancs D'amérique, Autobiographie Précoce D'un « Terroriste » Québécois.

Toronto, Ont.: Mccleland & Stewart Inc. [0-7710-8671-7] 1971, English translation. (Mass market paperback) 281pp. Near fine. The slightest of edgewear. The book is a class analysis of French Canadian settlement and social, political, and economic life in Canada since arrival. Vallières argues that French Canadians have been kept in a position of exploited workers by the English upper class entrepreneurs. He draws parallels between the social and economic position of French Canadians and slaves in the United States, hoping to show that both cultural groups have been brought to the continent to serve as the lower, under, and working class for a common oppressor. The book also serves as Vallières's “call to arms” for the exploited masses of French Canadians. He describes the development of a class consciousness among French Canadians through which they become cognizant of their position as oppressed, and Vallières advocates for an armed uprising. Vallières traces the development of his own intellectual and class consciousness, citing the policies and actions of Maurice Duplessis as contributing to his own social unrest. He discusses the asbestos and Murdochville mine strikes as particular instances contributing to his own sense of awareness of the injustice in Quebec. Translated by Joan Pinkham..