The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health presents critical, theoretical, empirical, and psychological accounts of intercultural intimacies.
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.
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
Jazmķn 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 Tomįs
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 Rodrķguez-Garcķa & 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 Genē
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
Chin Binh Nh Sn, Susan Rodriguez Branco & Lisa Ali
Chapter 36: The Search for Interracial Love Online: Black Womens
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
Shivon Raghunandan, EdD, is a professor at the Faculty of Social and Community Services at Humber Polytechnic, a psychotherapist in Toronto, and an honorary associate researcher at the Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Toronto. Her research interests include race and culture in interracial relationships and Caribbean healing practices
Roy Moodley, PhD, is Associate Professor of Clinical and Counselling Psychology and the Director of the Centre for Diversity in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Toronto. Roys research and publications include critical multicultural counselling and psychotherapy; race in psychotherapy; interracial relationships; traditional healing practices; and gender and identity.
Kelley R. Kenney, EdD, is Emeritus Full Professor of Education at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, USA, where she coordinated and directed the graduate program in Student Affairs in Higher Education. A trained counselor/counselor educator, she has published extensively about counseling interracial couples, individuals, and families.
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