Full Description
The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health presents critical, theoretical, empirical, and psychological accounts of intercultural intimacies.
It challenges pervasive Eurocentric discourse and ideas and offers current, scholarly, practical, equitable, global, and intercultural responsive philosophies, theories, clinical frameworks, and practices. The chapters in this text offer critical perspectives on the mental health and well‑being of intercultural couples, inclusive of multi‑cultural, multi‑ethnic, multi‑faith, multi‑sexual, multi‑racial, multi‑gendered, multi‑abled couples, and their intersections. A diverse range of international contributors present an intersectional analysis of traditional and contemporary cultural ideas and relationship philosophies and explore multiple global and cultural psychologies that shape the health and well‑being of intercultural couples and their families.
This handbook is essential for students, educators, mental health clinicians, and researchers in counselling, psychotherapy, clinical psychology, psychiatry, and social work programmes.
Contents
Part I: The Rise of Interracial and Intercultural Unions: History, Regulation and Racialization
Chapter 1: Colonialism and Racialization: Regulation of Mixed-Race Intimacies
Rachel F. Moran
Chapter 2: The Construction of White Supremacy and Its Impact on Interracial Relationships and Mixed-Race Identity
Jody Metcalfe
Chapter 3: Racialization, Racial Stratification and Sexual Racism
C. Winter Han
Chapter 4: Colourism: Skin Colour Stratification
Glenn T. Tsunokai & Elliott J. Windrope
Part II: Interracial, Interethnic and Intercultural Relationships
Chapter 5: Interethnic Romantic Relationships in Indigenous Communities
Amoneeta Beckstein
Chapter 6: Interracial Relationships in Black Communities
Salimata Lala Fall & Sarah Becker
Chapter 7: Interracial and Interethnic Relationships in East Asian Communities
Zheng Mu
Chapter 8: Interracial Relationships in South Asian Communities
Gita Seshadri & Shruti Singh Poulsen
Chapter 9: Interracial Relationships in Middle Eastern and North African Communities
Manijeh Daneshpour & Elham Fathi
Chapter 10: Interracial Relationships in Latine Communities
Jazmín A. Muro
Chapter 11: Interracial Relationships in White Communities: Implications for Identity, Social Support, and Relationship Maintenance
Stephanie E. Afful
Part III: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships in a Global Context
Chapter 12: Romantic Relationships Across Boundaries: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Julia Moses & Julia Woesthoff
Chapter 13: Navigating Borders in Intercultural Relationships: Intersections of Marriage, Migration, and Identity
Viktoriya Kim
Chapter 14: Interracial Relationships in Brazil: History, Culture, and Wellbeing
Maria Carolina Tomás
Chapter 15: Interracial Relationships in Canada: Decolonializing Perspectives and Lived Experiences
Shivon Raghunandan & Roy Moodley
Chapter 16: Interracial Relationships in Denmark: Couples Across Racial/ Ethnic Borders
Rashmi Singla
Chapter 17: Intercultural Relationships and Intermarriages in India: Courageous Attempts at "Unity in Diversity"
Hema Ganapathy-Coleman
Chapter 18: Interethnic Relationships and Marriages in Indonesia: Family Dynamics and Well-Being
Jony Eko Yulianto & Made Diah Lestari
Chapter 19: Intercultural Relationships in Italy: Challenges and Opportunities
Agostino Portera & Marta Milani
Chapter 20: Intercultural Relationships and Marriages in Japan: The Well-Being of Foreign Wives Married to Japanese Men.
Sayaka Osanami Törngren, Kikuko Nagayoshi & Hirohisa Takenoshita
Chapter 21: Intercultural Relationships in Russia: Marital Satisfaction, Mental Health and Wellness
Elena (Yurievna) Chebotareva
Chapter 22: Mixed-Race Relationships in South Africa: Beyond Thinking in Black and White
Tanya Graham
Chapter 23: Intercultural Relations and Intermarriage in Spain: Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
Dan Rodríguez-García & Joanna L. Freedman
Chapter 24: Intercultural and Mixed Race Relationships in Sweden: History, Societal Attitudes and Mental Health
Nahikari Irastorza, Sayaka Osanami Törngren & Hilda Gustafsson
Chapter 25: Interracial Couples in the United Kingdom: Between Problematization and Ordinariness
Elena Zambelli
Chapter 26: Intercultural Relationships in the United States: The State of Interracial Unions
Rachael A. Dansby Olufowote & Tabitha N. Webster
Part IV: Diversity and Intersectionality in Interracial and Intercultural Relationships
Chapter 27: Race in Intercultural Relationships
Tracy L. Robinson-Wood
Chapter 28: Gender in Intercultural Relationships
Byron Miller & Jennifer Admire
Chapter 29: Queer Interracial Relationships: Theoretical Perspectives and Relationship-Level Outcomes
Christopher-John Godfrey, DaSean Lucas Young & Kimberly Muellers
Chapter 30: Interracial Relationships and Gender Expansive Identities
Ashley "Smash" L. Koenig, Serena Maszak-Prato & Daiyah Williams
Chapter 31: Intercultural Relationships and Religion
Tom "YiLe" Su & Emel Genç
Chapter 32: Interracial Relationships and Disabilities
Alan Santinele Martino & Eleni Moumos
Part V: Border Crossings in Cross Racial and Cross Cultural Pairings and Families
Chapter 33: Families of Intercultural Couples: Relational Foundations and Fractures
Oyenike Balogun
Chapter 34: Parenting Mixed-Race Children
Marguerite Lengyell
Chapter 35: Transracial Adoption in Mixed Race Relationships
Chiền Binh Nhỏ Sơn, Susan Rodriguez Branco & Lisa Ali
Chapter 36: The Search for Interracial Love Online: Black Women's Experiences
Sarah Adeyinka-Skold & Celeste Vaughan Curington
Chapter 37: Marriages in Time of Global Mobility: Borders, Intimacy and Transnationalism
Francesca Decimo
Part VI: Intercultural Responsive Clinical Practice: Resilience, Mental Health and Well-Being (with case studies)
Chapter 38: Racial Ideologies and Identity in Interracial Relationships
James E. Brooks, Sojung Jang & Jonathan Kang
Chapter 39: The Role of Culture in Intercultural Love and Romantic Relationships
Ekaterina Yurtaeva & Divine Charura
Chapter 40: Navigating Intercultural Differences, Racial Discrimination, and Prejudice
Shruti Singh Poulsen & Gita Seshadri
Chapter 41: Mental Health, Psychosocial Wellness, and Intimacy in Interracial Relationships
Kyle D. Killian
Chapter 42: Social Justice and Advocacy-Based Counselling: Culturally-Responsive Clinical Practice for Interracial Couples
Kelley R. Kenney & Mark E. Kenney
