FACING THE CHANGE - CANADA AND THE INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR PEOPLE OF AFRICAN DESCENT

In the previous issue of Canadian Diversity, under the title and private sectors take the full measure of the problem and A Decade to Eradicate Discrimination and the Scourge of commit themselves to concrete action, in keeping with the Racism: National Black Canadians Summits Take on the Leg- spirit of the call issued by the United Nations. [...] In fact, young people would have a better under- the history and culture of people of African descent, develop standing of the causes and modus operandi of slavery and the intercultural dialogue among students, and bring together the slave trade, as well as the issues and consequences of slavery different cultures present in schools and in the community. [...] The same situation is also One of the achievements of the International Decade is in the observed when it comes to the median income of the Black area of funding for agencies and organizations. [...] Although the experience of being Black in Quebec cannot be reduced to racialization, some of the lived experiences of CITIES, THE IDEAL PLACE FOR THE RECOGNITION OF THE SOCIO-HISTOR- Blacks in Quebec serve to define the Black condition in the ICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF RACIALISED OR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES province: issues such as racial profiling, inequity in the justice system, systemic economic and so. [...] For example, for Quebecers and Montrealers alike, as well as for the many among the important sites in the city of Montreal, the Maison tourists visiting the city attracted by the charms of multicul- d’Haïti is a jewel in the eastern part of the metropolis.