Introduction

This book examines the dynamics of power and resistance within Francophone communities of Ontario. It explores the situation of African and Haitian Black1 Francophones, who constitute a racial minority situated within the official linguistic minority, in the distribution of and access to the economic and political resources that are attributed by the Canadian State to Francophones as one of its official linguistic communities in a minority situation. My work also seeks to identify various strategies and sites of resistance Black Francophones develop to gain access to power structures.