Black in Quebec : Summary Report 2020-2021

In Quebec, there is a population of around 320,000 people who identify as members of the Black community. In Quebec's Black community, just under 60,000 (around 1 in 5 people) are categorized as members of the English-speaking community (Statistics Canada, 2016). The Black in Quebec Project commenced in Fall 2019 with the drafting of the project and in February 2020, the Project Researcher (John Davids) and Research Assistant (Xiaoyan Fang) were hired by the BCRC. The purpose of the project is to fill the gaps in the knowledge about the English-speaking Black Community (ESBC) in Quebec. In Quebec and Canada, there is a lack of disaggregated race-base data that measures critical variables describing the socio-economic and psycho-social status of the English-speaking Black Community. Thus, when it came to exploring the state and vitality of the ESBC, there were and continues to be deficiencies in the publicly available data and knowledge. Being a study about a population that is both a racialized and linguistic minority in Quebec, the Black in Quebec Project attempts to fill some of the gaps in the collection of data, its analysis and storage. It presents an improved understanding regarding the unique situation and challenges facing the ESBC in Quebec.