Women Gender and Families of Color
Journal Data
| Type | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (US) |
| ISSN | 2326-0939 / 2326-0947 |
| Scopus | 21101163298 |
| Wikidata | Q88977207 |
| OpenAlex | S4210194621 |
| MAG | 4210194621 |
| Website | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/women_gender_and_families_of_color |
| Total publications | 177 |
| Coverage period | 2013 - 2024 |
| Country | US |
| Language | EN |
| Indexing | Scopus indexed |
| Cited by | 144 |
| Impact factor | 0.308 |
| SJR | 0.104 (Q4) |
| SNIP | 0.373 |
| CiteScore | 0.2 |
| h-index | 6 |
| i10-index | 4 |
This journal focuses on women, gender, and families of color, directly aligning with gender studies, postcolonial studies, and cultural studies. These are cognate social science and humanities fields with regular anthropological intersection
Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Sociology and Political Science · Academic Freedom and Politics · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · American History and Culture · Canadian Identity and History · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics
Águila
I am situated in the Yokuts and Monos peoples’ indigenous lands, what is now known as Fresno, in el valle (central valley) of California. I name this because, as I share mis pensamientos y emociones of this book, I feel entangled, como mi pelo, mis greñas enredadas, questioning who am I to review this book when I feel I have not fully reviewed myself for colonial desire. Gracias to my antepasados and elders who have brought me here and are genero…
Lifting as We Climb”
In this article, I critically reflect upon my experience with positive mentorship in the academy during my graduate program as a Black woman scholar. I share my experience with a woman-of-color mentor and the impact that it had on my scholarly identity development. I also share important lessons from this mentoring relationship and how I implement them into my own practice of mentorship as a faculty member
One System, Many Voices
In this essay, Hubbell and her coauthors share their experiences as eight women from diverse backgrounds, each at different faculty ranks within the same university system. Through their narratives, they reveal a shared landscape of challenges: isolation, microaggressions, expectations of unpaid labor, hurdles in the promotion and tenure process, work-life balance struggles, and burnout. The authors recognize a common struggle within an academic …
Academic Altruism or Kindness-Informed Allyship? Strategizing Care for Bipoc and Minority Scholars and Communities
In this essay, we discuss the challenges of self-directed care work in academia, particularly for marginalized individuals such as academics of color, early-career scholars, and those with minority identities. We highlight the burdens of academic altruism and the emotional toll it takes on these groups. Using the Hindu mythological figure of Maa Durga as a metaphor, our essay critiques the prevalent narrative of silent sacrifice among women in ac…
We Can't Go On Like This
In this visual nkwaethnographic (Allen-Handy 2022) origin story and reflection, I introduce and reflect on the genesis of the Seeing Wellness Project using photovoice. The Seeing Wellness Project is a participatory visual ethnography that explores the transformative self-care, wellness, and healing practices of self-identified transgender, women, and gender nonconforming Black, Indigenous and other people of color (BIPOC) who are diversity and ju…
Softness in Hard Times
In this article, Jaira J. Harrington discusses the challenges faced by academia in the current sociopolitical climate, particularly regarding issues of violence, marginalization, and the limits of liberal institutional reforms. It highlights the experiences of Black women academics who navigate systemic limitations while striving to maintain their values in their professional roles while facing institutional pressure to acquiesce to the status qu…
Always Already Difficult
In this article, Jessica Marie Shotwell, who identifies as a first-generation Black queer woman with disabilities, reflects upon the navigation of multiple setbacks on the professional pathway toward obtaining a doctorate in sociology. The author explains that one of the primary issues in these experiences was “always already being the problem.” The article offers guidance to colleagues and others who aspire to pursue an academic career and who h…
Reparations and Reparatory Justice
Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future, edited by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Mary Frances Berry, and V. P. Franklin, advances new and innovative elucidations that challenge scholars and activists alike to expand upon the possibilities for redress within the context of the movement for reparations. Redress, through the lens of Saidiya Hartman (1997), characterizes the practices through which Black people contest the afterlife o…
What Are You Doing Here?”
In this article, Porntip Israsena Twishime reflects upon the often-unspoken precarity of pursuing an academic career as a pregnant person of color the author disrupts a culture of silence around pregnant job candidates in academia by writing publicly about these experiences. The article advances the argument that stories about parenting in academia contribute knowledge about academic hiring and labor practices, the politics of gender, sexuality, …
Evidence of and Support for Indigenous Women's Leadership
Julie E. Lucero, Gregory B. Tafoya, Cassandra Harden, and Emily R. White Hat highlight the leadership experiences of Indigenous women, a topic that has been under researched. Their scoping review aimed to identify key concepts and support resources within peer-reviewed literature on Indigenous women's leadership. They reviewed 18 articles, primarily using qualitative designs and individual interviews, which emphasize the importance of relationshi…
Carving Out Space and Care in Transition and Beyond
In this essay, Donna Patterson reflects on experiences as chair of the Department of History, Political Science, Philosophy, and Law Studies at Delaware State University, highlighting the challenges and unique circumstances faced during the transition into this role. The author discusses the significance of being a woman and the first Black American chair in an HBCU context, detailing early struggles with acceptance and leadership, as well as cri…
Empowered Voices
This article is a critical reflection written in the form of a letter to explore how institutional and societal structures, such as systemic racism, gendered expectations, and caregiving responsibilities, intersect to create unique barriers for a Black mother-scholar during doctoral study. These barriers were further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted traditional academic settings and intensified challenges related to caregivin…
Navigating the Pandemic and Academia
In this article, Satarupa Dasgupta reflects on their experiences after the COVID-19 pandemic. The author emphasizes the need for mentorship and support systems that are grounded in solidarity and feminist consciousness, particularly for marginalized groups. They consider how the pandemic disproportionately affected women faculty of color due to intersecting social identities and systemic inequalities. By sharing personal experiences and examining…
Words to Live By
The article narrates the educational journeys of Jasmine Austin and her brothers, Jude and Julius Austin, focusing on the influence of family legacy and supportive messages. It highlights a pivotal moment when Jasmine inspires a disengaged student to recognize the importance of education and heritage. Jude shares his struggles in college, illustrating that success stems from both personal effort and familial support. Overall, the article aims to …
Producing New Knowledge in Community
The article discusses the experiences of three Chicana communication scholars—Drs. Mari Castañeda, Claudia Evans-Zepeda, and Sonya Alemán —who emphasize the importance of feminist collaboration and community building in higher education. They reflect on their individual journeys into the field of communication, shaped by experiences of exclusion and a desire for representation, and highlight how their collaboration, referred to as Comm Comadres, …
A Comadrisma Toolkit for Care and Well-Being on Campus
In this article, Naomi Fertman and Sarah De Los Santos Upton explore the concept of comadrisma as a framework for care and well-being among communities of color in higher education, with particular attention to the experiences of student parents. The authors draw on personal narratives as faculty and mothers, and the piece highlights the significance of communal support and othermothering within academic contexts. They provide insights into how c…
The Citizenship Education Program and Black Women's Political Culture
When people think about the civil rights movement and the larger Black freedom struggle within which it is nestled, Black male leaders are often some of the first to come to mind. For those interested in historical educational topics, the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case and Freedom Schools are well-known chapters of this pivotal period in U.S. history. A key group and issue routinely overlooked in this context are the Black women who worked…
Light and Legacies
Janaka Bowman Lewis's (2023) Light and Legacies: Stories of Black Girlhood and Liberation explores the ever-changing representations of Black girlhood in literary and cultural productions, beginning with the nineteenth century and extending into the twenty-first century. In tracing its historical and cultural significance, Lewis's comprehensive study positions Black girlhood as a key site of exploration within the tradition of African American wo…
Scholarship in the Time of Genocide
This article explores the intellectual and emotional tensions faced by the author, Ceren Usta, a woman of color from the Middle East, as she navigates the complexities of academic life and personal heritage. Centered on the author's dissertation research, the piece reflects on the intricate intersections of genocide, identity, and resilience. The article grapples with the author's own disconnected roots, the narratives shaped by dominant cultural…
The Power of Meaningful Mentorship in Fostering Care, Connection and Well-Being in Academia
In this article, Brittany Lynch and Penelope J. Moore explore mentorship in higher education, particularly within the context of a small, predominantly white institution in the northeastern United States. The authors reflect on their mentorship relationship, highlighting their diverse backgrounds and experiences. They discuss how these experiences shaped their perspectives and interactions in academia, emphasizing the importance of connection, su…
Taking Care in Academia
In this article, Cynthia P. Marentes explores the culture of carelessness in U.S. higher education that impacts nontraditional students, particularly parents. The author highlights institutional shortcomings, reflects on personal experiences, and advocates for a supportive academic community centered on care and inclusivity. By proposing invitational recruitment strategies and mentorship models, Marentes envisions a more equitable environment tha…
From Writing Group to Family
In this article, authors Alexia Angton and Ebony K. Williams consider their experiences with social support and community building during and after completing their PhDs. Their reflection offers insights into how these elements of their academic journey fostered the development of their respective scholarly identities. They also share thoughts on starting a writing support group as a part of one's graduate school experience
Remot-E-xile
This article discusses the complexities of being “remote” for international academics, particularly those in exile or from underprivileged backgrounds. It highlights the emotional and existential challenges they face routinely while emphasizing the need for solidarity and care work within academia. The author reflects on their own experiences as a marginalized academic and criticizes elitist viewpoints that discourage nontraditional students from…
Culturally Specific Barriers Black Female College Students Experience Following Incidents of Sexual Violence
In this article, LaSharia Turner discusses the barriers experienced by Black female students following incidents of sexual violence. The author references research that indicates that nondisclosure among college students is linked to the student feeling fear, embarrassment, doubt, uncertainties, and unfamiliarity with resources and services. At the same time, additional variables may serve to impede Black women from reporting. This article explor…
All the Things You Didn't Know
In this essay, Gnei Soraya Zarook reflects upon her early-career journey. The article explores the “unknowns,” the invisible norms, or those critical bits of information that we sometimes learn a little too late, if at all, about the transition from graduate student worker to assistant professor
Tenuous Ties
Since Stack’s (1974) landmark ethnography of kin support in a close-knit group of poor black mothers in the Midwest, there has been ample research on social support among low-income black families. While this body of work has largely painted a picture of the cohesive and supportive nature of families in black communities, recent research has highlighted the limited nature of kin support, especially the support available to low-income black mother…
The Impact of Community Involvement, Religion, and Spirituality on Happiness and Health among a National Sample of Black Lesbians
The health and health-care research community is slowly turning its attention to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people of color. This study advances such efforts by exploring the relative impact of engagement in the LGBT community, religiosity, and spirituality on self-reported happiness and overall health among a national sample of black lesbians. Employing OLS (ordinary least squares) regression analysis, we find that having a highe…
Multidimensional Approaches to Examining Gender and Racial/Ethnic Stratification in Health
Extant research on health disparities has traditionally employed a unidimensional approach to stratification, focusing on gender and racial/ethnic inequality separately. Such studies implicitly assume that gender inequality is monolithic across racial/ethnic lines and that racial/ethnic stratification is similar for women and men. While informative, these traditional, unidimensional approaches artificially decouple gender and racial/ethnic inequa…
Invisible Violence
Drawing on forty semistructured interviews with young Muslim American women, FBI hate crimes data, and civil rights policy reports, this research explores the rise of institutionalized private violence directed at Muslim women. While saving Muslim women from Muslim men through U.S. military invasion remains a dominant cultural ideology and justification for the global War on Terror, I argue that “saving Muslim women” from violence garners signifi…
An Introduction to Race, Gender, and Disability
Introduction to Special Issue
Research Article| April 01 2019 Introduction to Special Issue: Black Girlhood and Kinship Corinne T. Field; Corinne T. Field CORINNE T. FIELD is an associate professor in the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality at the University of Virginia and the Mellon-Schlesinger Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is currently completing a monograph titled Grand Old Women and Modern Girls: Age, Race, and Powe…
Anchor Babies and Welfare Queens
The phrases anchor baby and welfare queen are examples of gendered racist political rhetoric publicly used by lawmakers to marginalize vulnerable populations. In the 1980s and 1990s, the phrase welfare queen was used by lawmakers to describe poor single women who had multiple children, allegedly for the purpose of financial gain at the expense of U.S. taxpayers. The term anchor baby has been used more recently to describe the children of unauthor…
Puerto Rican Families in Central Florida
Central Florida is an emerging destination for Puerto Ricans migrating to the contiguous states of the United States. We use in-depth interviews with Puerto Rican adults and young adults (N=25) and data from the U.S. Census to examine Central Florida Puerto Rican families’ demographic and economic profiles and to compare them to those in older destinations such as New York. We focus particularly on socioeconomic integration. Findings from intervi…
Civic Engagement, Religion, and Health
Intersections of age, race, gender, sexuality, and aging keep older, black lesbians hidden from public consciousness and from researchers. While previous research has documented a relationship between religion, civic engagement, and health for black women, there is little known about these for older black lesbians. This paper offers a quantitative analysis of the relationship between religion, health, and civic engagement for a sample (N=149) of …
Between Intersectionality and Coloniality
This text mobilizes the theoretical frameworks of intersectionality and coloniality to analyze the figure of the Haitian poto-mitan woman—she who acts as a “central pillar”—a figure that was constructed during the history of colonialism. Colonial and postslavery relations initiated a process of coformation and coproduction and determined power relations that still traverse Haiti. They connect individual, national, and global dynamics that intertw…
You have to put your children’s needs first or you’re really not a good mother
Black mothers provide a disproportionate share of unpaid and informal health care support to others, internal and external to their households. In addition, black women experience a disproportionate burden of chronic disease and healthrelated risk factors. Despite these trends, few studies have examined the impact of daily mothering on women’s self-care practices. Embodiment, an ecosocial theory applied to health disparities research, describes a…
"Mothering the "Useless
For decades, scholars have studied virtually every aspect of day-to-day enslaved life in antebellum America, giving particular attention to the nuances and intricacies of slave family and community life. Yet few have considered the social relations of disabilities in these most intimate and closely guarded spaces or questioned, in particular, the challenges that women faced navigating the complex experience of enslaved motherhood when their child…
In the Life
In this short piece, the author stages a poetic and performative conversation between himself and the black queer figures he imagines as his chosen-family tree. This piece is an attempt to linger in the black queer inventiveness that is as much tethered to a real and imagined past as it is to all possible radical black futures
Marginalization and Fear? Concealed Carry and Campus Climate in the Trump Era
Research Article| April 01 2018 Marginalization and Fear? Concealed Carry and Campus Climate in the Trump Era Sierra Watt; Sierra Watt University of Kansas Sierra Watt is a University of Kansas graduate student in political science and women, gender, and sexuality studies. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Carolina Costa Candal; Carolina Costa Candal University of Kansas Carolina Costa Candal is a University of Kansas gra…
White folks ain’t got hair like us”
Limited research focuses on the memories that shape African American mother–daughter bonds and racial socialization. Informed by Marva L. Lewis’s hair-combing interaction paradigm that emphasizes the role of hair in African American mother–daughter relationships, this study analyzes qualitative data from 13 African American female college students to explore mother–daughter dynamics, race, and hair. Multiple experiential themes emerged in the dat…
Womanism, Spirituality, and Self-Health Management Behaviors of African American Older Women
Many older African American women perceive spirituality as an important resource in facilitating the self-management process of their chronic disease conditions. Research designs, which are congruent with theoretical frameworks of African American women, are important. However, many researchers remain unfamiliar with womanist thought or are unsure of how that framework can be used to understand specific aspects of self-management practices. The p…
On Pursuing Scholarship That Makes Me Whole
Research Article| October 01 2020 On Pursuing Scholarship That Makes Me Whole: Reflections of an Asian Woman Critical Feminist Scholar of Education Yoon Ha Choi Yoon Ha Choi YOON HA CHOI is a PhD candidate in science education and a graduate research assistant at Oregon State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Women, Gender, and Families of Color (2020) 8 (2): 147–152. https://doi.org/10.5406/womgenfamcol.8.2.0…
Paradoxes of Being and Becoming South Asian Single Mothers
Based on ethnography in a South Asian ethnic enclave and in-depth interviews with South Asian immigrant women, including single mothers working in the enclave, we explore the becoming and being of South Asian single motherhood. We specifically inquire how the becoming of single mothers affects the work–family lives of the mothers in an enclave economy. We show that the interplays of structural forces like immigration laws, racialized model-minori…
Fugitive Literati
Teaching black children how to survive on their own was one of the primary goals of the Howard Orphanage and Industrial School (1868–1918) in New York. One skill, penmanship, proved to be particularly important for orphaned girls. “Fugitive Literati” examines an incident involving one of the institution’s former residents, a sixteen-year-old black girl domestic, who used her writing to resist being forced to marry a man who may have sexually assa…
The Marketability of Black Joy
An unprecedented number of films directed and often written and produced by African Americans offering coupling conventions or the marriage plot as a trope began emerging at the close of the twentieth century and have continued with strong popularity into the twenty-first. The initial emergence of these films came on the tail of vicious debates and public rhetoric about dysfunctional African American families. As a means of talking back, or perha…
Pretenure and Black
Research Article| April 01 2018 Pretenure and Black: Teaching and Research in the Era of Trump Zakiya R. Adair Zakiya R. Adair The College of New Jersey Zakiya R. Adair is an assistant professor, jointly appointed in the Departments of Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies and African American Studies at The College of New Jersey. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Women, Gender, and Families of Color (2018) 6 (1): 26–31. h…
Becoming Legal
Book Review| April 01 2017 Becoming Legal: Immigration Law and Mixed-Status Families Becoming Legal: Immigration Law and Mixed-Status Families, by Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. Luz María Gordillo Luz María Gordillo Washington State University, Vancouver LUZ MARÍA GORDILLO is an associate professor and program leader in the Department of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, Vanco…
Sex at a Crossroads
This article explores the historical debates surrounding sexual deviancy among migrant Afro-Caribbean activists in Panama from the era of World War I until the 1930s. In addition to Panama Canal Zone records and Panamanian court records, this article utilizes a collection of West Indian newspapers published in Panama in order to trace the intersections of race, sex, labor, and class during the early twentieth century. This research highlights the…
The Diasporic Journeys of Louise Little
This article demonstrates the importance of women in leading Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) at the grassroots level, the ways Garveyite women forged “community feminism,” and the understudied importance of the U.S. Midwest and Canada as key sites of diasporic protest through the life, activism, and legacy of Malcolm X’s mother, Louise Langdon Norton Little. Born in Grenada in 1900, Little stands as a major figure i…
Employment Outcomes among African American and White Women with Disabilities
Compared to individuals without disabilities, those with disabilities experience inequalities in finding and sustaining employment that are more profound among women and minorities. The purpose of this study is to examine differences in employment outcomes for African American and white women with disabilities who received vocational rehabilitation (VR) services. The VR data that this study used included 18,602 women, 18-65 years old at entry int…
Latina Sexuality
The lives of Latinas are influenced in large measure by grand narratives nuanced by gender, race, and class. These narratives privilege their roles as nurturers and offers scripts for living and loving. In midlife, or the third stage of life, Latinas may experience loss of meaning, health challenges, disappointment, and loss. Midlife also presents an opportunity to challenge, question, and contest cultural and political narratives that constrain …
Womanism, Spirituality, and Self-Health Management Behaviors of African American Older Women
Many older African American women perceive spirituality as an important resource in facilitating the self-management process of their chronic disease conditions. Research designs, which are congruent with theoretical frameworks of African American women, are important. However, many researchers remain unfamiliar with womanist thought or are unsure of how that framework can be used to understand specific aspects of self-management practices. The p…
Constructing Syphilis and Black Motherhood
Negative stereotypes of black people, and of mothers in particular, have historically had material meaning. They directly supported racialized health policies, practices, and thinking among the health care communities and inhibited black women’s capacity to protect the health and welfare of themselves and their children. This was evidenced in an early twentieth-century health experiment in New York’s Columbus Hill, 1917-30. This research examines…
Health, Disability, Psychological Well-Being, and Depressive Symptoms among Older African American Women
This study examines the demographic correlates of psychological well-being (i.e., happiness and life satisfaction) and mental health (i.e., depressive symptoms and serious psychological distress) among older African American women. Additionally, the relationships between self-rated physical and oral health and disability and psychological well-being and mental health are explored. Analyses are based on a nationally representative sample of older …
Whose Stereotypes and Racial Myths? The National Urban League and the 1950s Roots of Color-Blind Adoption Policy
This study finds that the National Urban League, in the middle decades of the 20th century, led widespread efforts by child welfare agencies to recruit adoptive African American homes for children in black communities. Such findings are contrary to the predominant adoption historiography, which portrays a "pervasive neglect of black dependent children by the adoption community" until the appearance of interracial adoption for black children in th…
Connecting Intersectionality and Nepantla to Resist Oppressions
This essay argues that the black and Chicana feminist theories of Kimberlé Crenshaw and Gloria Anzaldúa, intersectionality and nepantla, respectively, attend to the complicated aspects of women’s identities, yet each also involves unique analyses that interrogate systemic understandings of oppression. I argue for a framework of intersectional nepantla, that is, the merger of these theories into a conjoining theoretical framework to be applied to …
A Package Deal? African American Men’s Perspectives on the Intersection of Marriage and Fatherhood
In response to decreasing marriage rates among childbearing couples, public policy has sought to reinforce the notion that marriage and fatherhood are a package deal. However, what remains unclear is whether the ideology and values of the policymakers promoting marriage and fatherhood as a package deal represent the values of the men targeted by the policy initiatives. In an attempt to respond to this question, this preliminary study presents the…
Masculinity, Religion, and Modernism
This article is a comparative consideration of Morehouse College president and public theologian Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894-1984) and novelist Richard Wright (1908-60). Their respective views on modernism were developed through a gendered lens of black Southern masculinity and religion that each experienced during his formative childhood. Mays and Wright responded differently to theism and Christianity. They also responded differently to the moth…
The Impact of Community Involvement, Religion, and Spirituality on Happiness and Health among a National Sample of Black Lesbians
The health and health-care research community is slowly turning its attention to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) people of color. This study advances such efforts by exploring the relative impact of engagement in the LGBT community, religiosity, and spirituality on self-reported happiness and overall health among a national sample of black lesbians. Employing OLS (ordinary least squares) regression analysis, we find that having a highe…
Doing What’s Right for the Baby
Recent changes in kinship care policy produce a range of care-types for grandparents raising their grandchildren, from informal kinship care to adoption. The unprecedented formalization of kinship care, expedited termination of parental rights, and conflict between parents and grandparents over the best interests of children require custodial grandparents to make determinations about care-type, termed "institutional decision making." Interview da…
"Tired and Hungry" in North Carolina
Historical interpretations of America’s eugenics programs show that no unified account exists and that a multiplicity of oftentimes competing ideological configurations contribute to the term eugenics. This essay focuses on recent controversies surrounding the decades-long eugenics programs in North Carolina and their illustration of the discursive and material implications of eugenic practices for marginalized populations. We examine the case of…
A Cape Verdean Perspective on Disability
The disability rights movement has brought about broad change in what we see today socially in our imagination and pragmatically within the political landscape. Specifically, it has challenged what it means to be human and what it means to have the right to exist within a social democracy based on principles of equality. Yet the disability rights movement has paid little attention to how disability is understood within culturally diverse communit…
An Introduction to Race, Gender, and Disability
"Mothering the "Useless
For decades, scholars have studied virtually every aspect of day-to-day enslaved life in antebellum America, giving particular attention to the nuances and intricacies of slave family and community life. Yet few have considered the social relations of disabilities in these most intimate and closely guarded spaces or questioned, in particular, the challenges that women faced navigating the complex experience of enslaved motherhood when their child…
Dislocated Histories
This work examines removals, institutions, and community lives in U.S. history. It centers on "dislocated histories" from South Dakota’s Canton Asylum, the only federal psychiatric hospital for American Indians. Between its opening in 1902 and forced closure in 1934, the Asylum ultimately held four hundred men, women, and children from seventeen states and nearly fifty tribal nations. Individual histories of those confined at Canton and their fam…
My Dear Boy
Book Review| April 01 2015 My Dear Boy: Carrie Hughes’s Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938 My Dear Boy: Carrie Hughes’s Letters to Langston Hughes, 1926-1938, edited by Carmaletta M. Williams and John Edgar Tidwell, University of Georgia, $39.95, ISBN: 978-0-8203-4565-9. Reviewed by Crystal Boson, Oregon State University. Crystal Boson Crystal Boson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Women, Gender, and Families of Color…
Gender Differences in the Experiences of African American College Students
This study applies an intersectional framework to provide information about the ways in which race, gender, and on-campus social support influence the experiences of African American college students. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen, I examine how co-ethnic social support from the college community and the college racial composition influence the experiences of African American students attending selective colleges. The results…
Civic Engagement, Religion, and Health
Intersections of age, race, gender, sexuality, and aging keep older, black lesbians hidden from public consciousness and from researchers. While previous research has documented a relationship between religion, civic engagement, and health for black women, there is little known about these for older black lesbians. This paper offers a quantitative analysis of the relationship between religion, health, and civic engagement for a sample (N=149) of …
Child Welfare Practice in Domestic Violence Cases in New York City
Domestic violence is a regularly occurring problem in child welfare cases, and, as a result of feminist research and activism, it is arguably taken more seriously now than at any time in the past. This paper will argue that, despite the influence of feminist understandings of and solutions to domestic violence in child welfare policy and practice, the most common way of dealing with cases remains problematic for the poor women of color who are th…
Making Life
This essay examines representations of labor in Caribbean literature through the lens of feminist rehearsal, a term I have conceived, to argue that work is a central location in understanding Caribbean women's belonging and power and that it connects them to the sexual and political economies of the region. With feminist rehearsal, I employ the same trope from several vantage points to reach a fuller understanding of the implications of the relat…
Understanding Identity Making in the Context of Sociopolitical Involvement among Asian and Pacific Islander American Lesbian and Bisexual Women
This study examines how Asian and Pacific Islander American (API) lesbians and bisexual women form identities within the context of occupying both ethnic and sexual minority social statuses. To do so, we examine the correlates of sociopolitical involvement within minority communities among a sample of 175 API lesbian and bisexual women. The findings suggest that feeling connected to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities plays…
Reform without Justice
Book Review| October 01 2015 Reform without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State Reform without Justice: Latino Migrant Politics and the Homeland Security State, by Alfonso Gonzales, Oxford University Press, $29.95, ISBN: 978-0-19-934293-8. Reviewed by Caleb Lázaro Moreno, University of Kansas. Caleb Lázaro Moreno Caleb Lázaro Moreno Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Women, Gender, and Families…
Employment Outcomes among African American and White Women with Disabilities
Compared to individuals without disabilities, those with disabilities experience inequalities in finding and sustaining employment that are more profound among women and minorities. The purpose of this study is to examine differences in employment outcomes for African American and white women with disabilities who received vocational rehabilitation (VR) services. The VR data that this study used included 18,602 women, 18-65 years old at entry int…
You have to put your children’s needs first or you’re really not a good mother
Black mothers provide a disproportionate share of unpaid and informal health care support to others, internal and external to their households. In addition, black women experience a disproportionate burden of chronic disease and healthrelated risk factors. Despite these trends, few studies have examined the impact of daily mothering on women’s self-care practices. Embodiment, an ecosocial theory applied to health disparities research, describes a…
Black Megachurches and Gender Inclusivity
Black megachurches are increasingly known for their charismatic pastors, multiple worship services, and unconventional programs. But what are their stances on gender inclusivity? Informed by black liberation and womanist theologies, this mixedmethodological study across 16 black megachurches assesses clergy views on the subject as well as whether their congregations are welcoming and affirming, open, or exclusionary regarding black women in churc…