A decade ago, April Few-Demo argued intersectionality was the “new” critical approach to utilizing a critical lens within feminist family science. This special issue invited interdisciplinary scholars to consider how intersectionality has evolved and expanded, to examine tensions and challenges with applying an intersectional lens, and to address how intersectionality has been utilized in pedagogy, research, and praxis. Our contributors embraced this call and wrote about using intersectionality theory to examine how people and groups navigate institutional barriers in governmental entities, higher education, and mental health professions as well as health disparities. These articles in this special issue showcase the multifaceted ways in which intersectionality has been applied in family science and how intersectionality not only strengthens analytic power but also holds scholars and practitioners accountable to the people and communities we study.
Asian Critical Theory highlights the tenet of intersectionality and four other tenets (i.e., Asianization, [re]constructive history, strategic [anti]essentialism, and commitment to social justice) that are relevant to Asian American (AA) youths' (adolescents' and emerging adults') experiences of racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on 22 studies published between March 2020 and November 2024, this review utilizes these tenets as a framework to summarize and discuss the findings and methodologies of the studies on AA youths' experiences of pandemic racism. An intersectional lens is valuable because the reviewed studies suggest AA youths' experiences of pandemic racism vary with their gender and ethnic identities, nativity, and age. Nine studies interrogated Asianization by studying a single AA ethnicity or comparing two ethnic subgroups, while 13 studies reiterated by studying AAs as an aggregate. (Re)constructive history is supported as the reviewed studies suggest that anti-Asian sentiments that targeted AAs as a major threat to America's public health in the 19th century reoccurred during the pandemic. The reviewed studies also support strategic (anti)essentialism by identifying eight forms of pandemic racism (e.g., discrimination) as risk factors for AA youths' development across four domains (mental and physical health and psychosocial and academic adjustment). Extending the tenet of commitment to social justice, our review indicates when facing pandemic racism, AA youths' commitment to social justice may be impacted by their identities (e.g., gender) and familial and social contexts. This review discusses implications for lessening the negative impacts of pandemic racism on AA youths' overall adjustment.
Researchers across disciplines are identifying and paying attention to linkages between structural racism and Black maternal health disparities to improve health outcomes for Black pregnant women. Few of them, however, are addressing how those disparities influence Black family stability. I present a conceptual model to help family scientists visualize the pathways and processes of how exosystemic stressors disrupt family stability but also serve as starting points for critical praxis and community mobilization. Stressors include the school-to-prison pipeline and influences of abortion bans on child outcomes. I pay particular attention to (a) the impact historical oppression in health care has on Black women, and (b) the critical praxis happening within Black communities to support Black women's health and family stability. I conclude with recommendations for family scientists to use to support those community-based, critical praxis efforts. I interpret the model through an intersectional, Black feminist lens.
The field of human development and family science is broadening the scope for what is deemed legitimate science; however, the voices of Latinx and Caribbean scholars have been largely absent. We contend that it is not sufficient to merely disrupt hegemonic worldviews and practices in the production of knowledge, but it is also necessary to center our ways of knowing as Latinx and Caribbean scholars and practitioners. In this paper, we utilize our sentipensar and third order thinking as intersectional feminist Latinx and Caribbean scholars to approach decolonizing research methods as a form of third order change. We review decolonizing efforts in academia, the effects of colonization in the Americas and the Caribbean and situate our positionalities as context for our work. We describe six stances for engaging sentipensar and third order thinking to illustrate how we respond to our sociopolitical contexts and work toward transformative third order change.
Intersectional feminist frameworks offer family science scholars the conceptual lens to consider overlapping systems of identities and power structures in families and society to understand how families live. Yet the shifting politicization of scholarship that examines diversity and inclusion is contributing to the social erasure of people and families who live with marginalized identities, highlighting the ongoing necessity and relevance of intersectional family science scholarship. Intersectionality is a theoretical framework and research paradigm in family studies that allows for systemic critique of inequitable power structures that impact families as well as the production of knowledge. Here, we recognize the changing landscape of higher education and the potential strain that family science scholars at Predominantly White Institutions face. We address the impacts of shifting federal political priorities and policies on intersectional feminist family science scholars and scholarship, how we have been directly affected, and offer strategies for navigating uncertain times.
The harmful consequences of substance use are particularly concerning for Black adolescents in urban communities, many of whom face additional environmental challenges that disrupt their transition into adulthood. Families play a pivotal role in prevention, and some have been successful, as substance use rates among Black adolescents are lower than their racial–ethnic peers. Yet, prevention research often overlooks the influence of place, Black family processes, and the heterogeneity of adolescents' intersecting identities. Applying intersectionality theory in family science provides a lens to examine how overlapping identities such as race, gender, and class interact with systemic racism and environmental stressors to shape risk. We discuss how intersectionality can inform the study and design of substance-use-prevention interventions, using Black adolescents in urban communities as an example. We highlight the strengths of urban Black families and outline implications for family scientists and prevention researchers pursuing intersectional, family-centered approaches.
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