Drawing from the lived experiences of Haitian women in Boston and Montreal, this study illustrates how ethnography can augment understandings of race and place in demography by complementing quantitative analyses, showing how race is constructed across place through daily micro-interactions. Building on the work of demographers who examine how race shifts over time and place, this article challenges the practice of engaging with race as a fixed or static category to consider how race is constructed across place, highlighting the nuances of race that are sometimes lost in quantitative studies. The multi-sited ethnographic methodology employed in this study is uniquely suited to uncovering the specificities of race and place. The findings reveal that Haitian women experience race differently in Montreal and in Boston, based largely on the historical context of each place. Haitians in Boston experienced intraracial tensions with African Americans, particularly during the 1960s and 1970s, that shaped their experiences of race and place, while Haitians in Montreal at the same time experienced Blackness that was closely tied with xenophobia in the French Canadian context. The Haitian women in this study experienced race, place, gender, ethnicity, and class simultaneously, necessitating an intersectional approach to understanding the effects of race in and on their daily lives.

这项研究借鉴了波士顿和蒙特利尔的海地妇女的生活经历，说明了民族志如何通过补充定量分析来增强对人口学中种族和地方的理解，展示种族是如何通过日常微交互跨地方构建的。基于研究种族如何随时间和地点变化的人口统计学家的工作，本文挑战了将种族作为固定或静态类别的做法，以考虑种族是如何跨地区构建的，突出了有时会丢失的种族细微差别定量研究。本研究中采用的多地点人种学方法非常适合揭示种族和地方的特殊性。调查结果显示，海地女性在蒙特利尔和波士顿的种族经历不同，主要基于每个地方的历史背景。波士顿的海地人经历了与非裔美国人的种族间紧张关系，特别是在 1960 和 1970 年代，这影响了他们的种族和地方体验，而蒙特利尔的海地人同时经历了与法裔加拿大人的仇外心理密切相关的黑人。本研究中的海地妇女同时经历了种族、地点、性别、民族和阶级，因此需要采用交叉方法来了解种族对她们日常生活的影响。而与此同时，蒙特利尔的海地人则经历了与法裔加拿大人的仇外心理密切相关的黑暗。本研究中的海地妇女同时经历了种族、地点、性别、民族和阶级，因此需要采用交叉方法来了解种族对她们日常生活的影响。而与此同时，蒙特利尔的海地人则经历了与法裔加拿大人的仇外心理密切相关的黑暗。本研究中的海地妇女同时经历了种族、地点、性别、民族和阶级，因此需要采用交叉方法来了解种族对她们日常生活的影响。