{"id":19217,"date":"2024-03-20T10:47:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/book-launch-out-to-defend-ourselves-a-history-of-montreals-first-haitian-street-gang\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T10:58:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T14:58:52","slug":"book-launch-out-to-defend-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/book-launch-out-to-defend-ourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch: Out to Defend Ourselves: A History of Montreal\u2019s First Haitian Street Gang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1elxl-b72babf4858e5795568ec5dbf4e0127c\">\n.flex_column.av-1elxl-b72babf4858e5795568ec5dbf4e0127c{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1elxl-b72babf4858e5795568ec5dbf4e0127c av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_three_fourth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1elxl-a8c501240a5b25f22485ac3905a1b946\">\n.flex_column.av-1elxl-a8c501240a5b25f22485ac3905a1b946{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1elxl-a8c501240a5b25f22485ac3905a1b946 av_three_fourth  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_one_fourth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-kbqqmldh-da6d2a7931effae7a4bd079ce1eeccb5\">\n.avia-image-container.av-kbqqmldh-da6d2a7931effae7a4bd079ce1eeccb5 img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-kbqqmldh-da6d2a7931effae7a4bd079ce1eeccb5 .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-kbqqmldh-da6d2a7931effae7a4bd079ce1eeccb5 av-styling-no-styling avia-align-left  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" class='wp-image-19202 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-19202 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OTDO-flyer-COHDS-796x1030.png\" alt='' title='OTDO-flyer-COHDS'  height=\"1030\" width=\"796\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OTDO-flyer-COHDS-796x1030.png 796w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OTDO-flyer-COHDS-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OTDO-flyer-COHDS-768x994.png 768w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OTDO-flyer-COHDS-1187x1536.png 1187w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OTDO-flyer-COHDS-1159x1500.png 1159w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OTDO-flyer-COHDS-545x705.png 545w, https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/OTDO-flyer-COHDS.png 1545w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 796px) 100vw, 796px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-kbihb0gk-78d3301f98f2f60c00fafc455aba9186 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"tribe-events-single-event-description tribe-events-content entry-content description\">\n<p><em>with Maxime Aur\u00e9lien and Ted Rutland<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You are cordially invited to join authors Maxime Aur\u00e9lien and Ted Rutland on<strong> Tuesday March 27 from 2-4 p.m.<\/strong> for a discussion on their new book: <a href=\"https:\/\/fernwoodpublishing.ca\/book\/out-to-defend-ourselves\"><em>Out to Defend Ourselves: A History of Montreal\u2019s First Haitian Street<\/em> Gang<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This event will be held in the COHDS sunroom, LB-1019.<\/p>\n<p>About the book:<\/p>\n<p>This first critical history of a street gang in a Canadian city is a result of a four-year collaboration between a university professor (Ted Rutland) and the leader of les B\u00e9langers (Maxime Aur\u00e9lien).\u00a0<em>Out to Defend Ourselves<\/em>\u00a0tells the story of Montreal\u2019s first Haitian street gang, les B\u00e9langers. It traces how the gang emerged from a group of Haitian friends, the children of migrants from Haiti in the 1970s. It documents the forms of racial violence they experienced and their battles against them. It also documents the everyday lives of the gang members, the petty crime some members engaged in to make ends meet, and how the police actions against the gang changed its nature and function \u2013 making it, finally, a more criminally oriented and violent formation. It is a story about a gang, but it is also a story of young Haitians making their lives in 1970s and 80s Montreal and a story about Montreal in a period of great change.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><strong>Maxime Aur\u00e9lien<\/strong>\u00a0is the former leader of les B\u00e9langers, Montreal\u2019s first Haitian street gang. He is the owner of Cash Content, a pawn shop and barbershop in Montreal\u2019s east end.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ted Rutland<\/strong>\u00a0is a professor at Concordia University. His research and activism focuses on the racial politics of urban planning and policing in Canadian cities. He is the author of Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"tribe-events-single-event-description tribe-events-content entry-content description\">\n<p><strong>REGISTRATION\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Please note that all of our events are free and open to all. For any questions and to register, contact us at:\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:cohds.chorn@concordia.ca\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">cohds.chorn@concordia.ca<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">In-person at LB-1019 (Sunroom)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">COHDS\/ALLAB is located on unceded Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka territory, in Tiohti\u00e1:ke\/Montreal.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-nouvelles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19220,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19217\/revisions\/19220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytelling.concordia.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}