Fear of a Black Language: A Radical Language Policy Perspective to the Afrobarometer

Aim/Purpose: This paper complicates Black English-speaking Quebecers by mapping them to the poli-tics of multilingualism, through attempting join and African thinkers on dialectics linguistic (in)securities. In particular, it joins “Francophone” “Anglo-phone” Caribbean intellectuals: Édouard Glissant Edward Kamau Brathwaite, in dialogue with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a pan-African intellectual. Background: Official language policies, ideologies, practices within Canada Quebec contribute marginalization population, particular English-speakers Quebec, as double minority. Language is an important intersectional factor effecting wellbeing plays significant role their “experiences” racial discrimination. Methodology: To challenge various forms hegemonies obscuration violence that positivist logics engender quantitative means; this aligns emerging approaches critical approaches. Binary logistic regression model based variables (home practice) non-linguistic (country, age, agency, trust) employed predict absence or presence security using SPSS. Findings: The results analysis indicate five-predictor provided sta-tistically prediction security, χ2(5, n = 3891) 114.759, p < 0.001. points how individual policy operates “complex ecological rela-tionship among wide range elements, variables, fac-tors.” A implication for be taken seriously, newer rounds Afrobarometer, was former years. would entail challenging nation-state framework Afrobarometer. Impact Society: policies historically, present times, are tools hegemony, colonial violence, repression. Thinking about beyond borders Pan- Africanist thinkers, relation multilingual being, carves new possibilities securities.