Lionel!Groulx's 1922 publication, L'Appel de la Race:: Violent polemic around a "dangerous" book in French-Canadian intellectual circles

The publication of Abbe Groulx's L'Appel de la Race in 1922 triggered a violent polemic in French-Canadian intellectual circles. today, it is difficult to understand what this debate was really all about. Neither the rights of linguistic minorities nor the relevance of Groulx's ideas on mixed marriages or crossbreeding between "races" are openly discussed. On the other hand, considerable attention is paid to issues of moral theology, and attempts are made to present the Abbe's novel as "dangerous". Behind these arguments, however, it is possible to detect a political debate that is afraid (or unable) to express itself as such.