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Significant socio-economic, health, and mental health disparities due to highly entrenched and systemic anti-Black racism in Canadian institutions, policies, and practices are now well documented in research and policy reports. Yet, few in-depth studies have addressed the mental health impacts of anti-Black racism on Canadian populations. This article is rooted in a community-based, qualitative research project with young first and second-generation Black Caribbean-Canadian mothers and is informed by Black Feminist epistemologies and intersectional theories and methodologies. Our research demonstrates how participants' childhood experiences with xenophobic and racist immigration policies and educational, child welfare, and childcare systems caused their future mental health challenges as young Black mothers, and how these struggles were exacerbated by their encounters with the racist, ageist, xenophobic medical, social, and mental health services they had to access as young mothers. Based on these findings, we recommend enhancements to current social policies to minimize the differential mental health impacts on young Black Canadian mothers. Les rapports de recherche et de politique documentent d'importantes disparites socio-economiques, sanitaires et mentales dues au racisme anti-Noir systemique et fortement enracine dans les institutions, les politiques et les pratiques canadiennes. Pourtant, peu d'etudes approfondies se sont penchees sur les effets du racisme antiNoirs sur la sante mentale des populations canadiennes. Cet article s'appuie sur un projet de recherche qualitative communautaire mene aupres de jeunes meres canadiennes noires des Caraibes de premiere et de deuxieme generation, et s'inspire des epistemologies feministes noires ainsi que des theories et methodologies intersectionnelles. Notre recherche demontre comment les experiences de l'enfance des participantes avec les politiques d'immigration xenophobes et racistes et les systemes d'education, de protection de l'enfance et de garde d'enfants ont cause leurs futurs problemes de sante mentale en tant que jeunes meres noires, et comment ces luttes ont ete exacerbees par leurs rencontres avec les services medicaux, sociaux et de sante mentale racistes, agistes et xenophobes auxquels elles ont du avoir acces en tant que jeunes meres. Sur la base de ces resultats, nous recommandons d'ameliorer les politiques sociales actuelles afin de minimiser les impacts differentiels sur la sante mentale des jeunes meres noires canadiennes., INTRODUCTION Black people (defined as those of African and Caribbean descent) now account for 3.5% of the Canadian population, with more than half of Canada's Black residents (52.4%) living in [...]

The porous and shifting boundaries within and between care and work concepts, and practices and their related measurement complexities call for innovative conceptual and methodological approaches to research on work and care. This article details how we reconfigured the Household Portrait – a qualitative, participatory, visual, creative method that engages couples in mapping and discussing their household and care tasks and responsibilities – into a Care/Work Portrait. Informed by conceptual shifts in care theories, the Care/Work Portrait offers theoretical and methodological advantages for studying gendered divisions and relations of household work and care. It attends to unpaid care work/paid work/paid care work intra-connections, moves outside the household to include community-based work, deepens distinctions between tasks and responsibilities, and considers wider forms and contexts of care. This method goes beyond who does what tallies to bring forth relational, temporal, spatial stories about people's complex care/work configurations and the specific contexts, constraints, supports, and structuring conditions of their lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]