1)Thread on the diversity of the Black pop in Canada. This heterogeneity often obscured by anti-Black racism, stereotypes & biases that reduce the fact of Blackness to what Desmond Cole names, explores & disrupts in _The Skin We're in_. Some key @StatCan_eng reports/resources👇🏿👇🏾
1)Thread on the diversity of the Black pop in Canada. This heterogeneity often obscured by anti-Black racism, stereotypes & biases that reduce the fact of Blackness to what Desmond Cole names, explores & disrupts in _The Skin We're in_. Some key @StatCan_eng reports/resources
1)Thread on the diversity of the Black pop in Canada. This heterogeneity often obscured by anti-Black racism, stereotypes & biases that reduce the fact of Blackness to what Desmond Cole names, explores & disrupts in _The Skin We're in_. Some key @StatCan_eng reports/resources
2)The @StatCan_eng team in CELIS/Centre for Ethnocultural, Language & Immigration Stats is led by consultative Asst Dir Dr Jean-Pierre Corbeil. They draw on a Working Group on Black communities in Canada: me, Afua Cooper, Carl James, Myrlande Pierre, Scot Wortley Frantz Voltaire.
2)The @StatCan_eng team in CELIS/Centre for Ethnocultural, Language & Immigration Stats is led by consultative Asst Dir Dr Jean-Pierre Corbeil. They draw on a Working Group on Black communities in Canada: me, Afua Cooper, Carl James, Myrlande Pierre, Scot Wortley Frantz Voltaire.
2)The @StatCan_eng team in CELIS/Centre for Ethnocultural, Language & Immigration Stats is led by consultative Asst Dir Dr Jean-Pierre Corbeil. They draw on a Working Group on Black communities in Canada: me, Afua Cooper, Carl James, Myrlande Pierre, Scot Wortley Frantz Voltaire.
3) Few good statistical profiles of the Black community in Canada pre-CELIS' work in the context of the UN Decade for People of African Descent, 2015-24 & BHM.

Statistics Canada. Blacks in Canada: A Long History. By Anne Milan and Kelly Tran. Spring 2004. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-008-x/2003004/article/6802-eng.pdf
4) @StatCan_eng's "Blacks in Canada: A Long History," By Anne Milan & Kelly Tran, Spring 2004, mapped a trend that is now evident in the 2019 & 2020 studies: Black immigration to Canada was shifting from Caribbean region to the African continent. By 1991-2001 it was almost 50-50.
5)27 Feb2019 booklet, "Diversity of the Black population in Canada: An Overview" released by @StatCan_eng, By 2016 the non-Canadian born Black popu from >170 countries, 200 ethnic/cultural groups.
Shift to primarily Black immigrants from African continent.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11-627-m/11-627-m2019006-eng.htm
6)2016 Census data: growth of the Black pop on the prairies👇🏿, age (younger), gen (>1st, 2nd) & lang (>French)
Alberta: 1st gen 63% (eg Nigeria, Ethiopia, Jamaica, Somalia & Eritrea), 2nd gen 29.2%, 3rd gen 6.2%.
Diversity of the Black population in Canada
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/89-657-x/89-657-x2019002-eng.htm
7)During #BlackHistoryMonth 2020 & since @StatCan_eng released three reports on Black community in Canada, including on youth:

"Results from the 2016 Census: Education and labour market integration of Black youth in Canada," by Martin Turcotte, Feb 25. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/75-006-X202000100002
8)A 2nd @StatCan_eng report on the Black pop released #BHM2020

Canada's Black population: Education, labour & resilience by Deniz Do, Feb25:
"the perceptions of Black individuals in the labour force..experiences with discrimination..resiliency ..examined" https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/89-657-X2020002
9)The "resilience" finding in the Deniz Do study does not surprise me. It might surprise those inclined toward deficit stereotypes. There's a fierce optimism among the Black community in Canada

"Canada's Black population: Education, labour and resilience," @StatCan_eng 25Feb2020
10) "Black population..expressed a better outlook for the future..76% of the Black immigrant..85% of the Black non-immigrant population felt that life opportunities would improve within..five years..rest of the population..were 57% and 46%, respectively" https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/200225/dq200225b-eng.htm
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