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Abstract
Purpose
This study identifies and analyzes missed opportunities to examine how race and racism intersect with intimate partner violence in queer relationships.
Method
Guided by the concept of intersectionality, the article reviews the literature on emotional abuse in queer intimate relationships to understand when and how it engages race. The article features an in-depth examination of several studies that failed to consider the racial dimensions of emotional or psychological abuse, even when the sample was made up mainly of people of color. The article juxtaposes these “colorblind” studies with several excerpts from the LGBT Relationships Study. This study entailed interviewing 99 LGBT people in three major U.S. cities about their romantic relationships over the lifespan. Certain participants’ discussion of how racism surfaced in their intimate relationships suggest that sexual racism may constitute an overlooked form of emotional abuse.
Results
Many studies failed to recruit racially diverse samples or recruited racially diverse samples but did not discuss the racial experiences of the participants. Although some of these studies attended to gender, age, power, and/or HIV status, they did not similarly examine how race intersects with emotional abuse.
Conclusion
Scholars should be more intentional and curious about how racial discrimination may factor into emotional abuse. Interventions may include providing participants with specific examples of racial insults and asking whether they have encountered them. Scholars should also explore building bridges between the IPV literature and the literature on sexual racism because of convergence between these phenomena.
期刊介绍：
The Journal of Family Violence (JOFV) is a peer-reviewed publication committed to the dissemination of rigorous research on preventing, ending, and ameliorating all forms of family violence. JOFV welcomes scholarly articles related to the broad categories of child abuse and maltreatment, dating violence, domestic and partner violence, and elder abuse. Within these categories, JOFV emphasizes research on physical violence, psychological violence, sexual violence, and homicides that occur in families. Studies on families in all their various forms and diversities are welcome. JOFV publishes studies using quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods involving the collection of primary data. Rigorous systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and theoretical analyses are also welcome. To help advance scientific understandings of family violence, JOFV is especially interested in research using transdisciplinary perspectives and innovative research methods. Because family violence is a global problem requiring solutions from diverse disciplinary perspectives, JOFV strongly encourages submissions from scholars worldwide from all disciplines and backgrounds.
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