A decolonizing, intersectional, Black feminist approach to young Black Caribbean-Canadian mothers’ resilience

Goddard-Durant, Sadie K.; Doucet, Andrea; Tizaa, Helena; Sieunarine, Jane Ann

doi:10.1080/13229400.2022.2105737

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“…This enabled us to identify how the specific and varied adversities and barriers faced by the participants were structured by policies that reflect racist, gendered, colonialist, neoliberalist, and neocolonialist ideologies. Our findings were shared in a report (Goddard-Durant et al, 2021) and at a knowledge mobilization event organized by TAIBU CHC in June 2023 with community members, organizations working with Black communities in Toronto, and municipal government organizations.…”

Section: Qualitative Research Interviews and Data Analysismentioning

confidence: 76%

“I don't have the energy”: Racial stress, young Black motherhood, and Canadian social policies

Goddard‐Durant,

Doucet,

Tizaa

et al. 2023

Canadian Review of Sociology

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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.

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Section: Qualitative Research Interviews and Data Analysismentioning

confidence: 76%