Incorporating Intersectionality Into Psychology: An Opportunity to Promote Social Justice and Equity
Incorporating Intersectionality Into Psychology: An Opportunity to Promote Social Justice and Equity
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DOI：
10.1037/a0040323
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发表时间：
2016-09-01
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16.4
通讯作者：
Rosenthal, Lisa
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作者：
Rosenthal, Lisa
交叉性在包括心理学在内的许多领域都受到越来越多的关注。这种理论或框架植根于黑人女权主义者的工作，它侧重于压迫的连锁系统，以及努力实现结构层面变革以促进社会正义和公平的必要性。因此，当前对心理学交叉性的兴趣提供了一个机会，可以吸引心理学家更多地关注结构层面的问题，并使社会正义和公平成为该领域的核心议程。越来越多的研究表明，结构性和人际层面的压迫、不平等和耻辱对许多不同群体的健康和福祉产生了广泛的不良后果，这些问题是心理学领域的核心。我们作为个体心理学家和整个领域可以充分结合交叉性的见解，从而有助于使社会正义和公平在我们工作的各个子领域和领域中更加核心。我们能够做到这一点的具体方法是：（a）与社区接触和合作，（B）处理和批评社会结构，（c）共同努力/建立联盟，（d）除了恢复能力之外，还注意抵制，以及（e）教授社会正义课程。心理学内外都有一些重要的例子可以指导我们实现这些目标。这些建议旨在促进心理学家在所有子领域和重点领域的对话和考虑。
Intersectionality is receiving increasing attention in many fields, including psychology. This theory or framework has its roots in the work of Black feminist scholar-activists, and it focuses on interlocking systems of oppression and the need to work toward structural-level changes to promote social justice and equity. Thus, the current interest in intersectionality in psychology presents an opportunity to draw psychologists' attention more to structural-level issues and to make social justice and equity more central agendas to the field. The large, ever-growing bodies of research demonstrating the wide-ranging adverse consequences of structural-and interpersonal-level oppression, inequality, and stigma for the health and well-being of many diverse groups of people support that these issues are central to the field of psychology. We as individual psychologists and the field as a whole can work to fully incorporate the insights of intersectionality and therefore contribute to making social justice and equity more central across the varied subfields and realms of our work. Specific ways that we can do this are to (a) engage and collaborate with communities, (b) address and critique societal structures, (c) work together/build coalitions, (d) attend to resistance in addition to resilience, and (e) teach social justice curricula. There are important examples both within and outside of psychology that can guide us in achieving these goals. These suggestions are meant to foster conversation and consideration by psychologists across all subfields and areas of focus.