Research Handbook on Intersectionality

Critical intersectional scholarship enhances researchers’ and scholar-activists’ ability to open novel research frontiers. This forward-thinking Research Handbook demonstrates how to pursue fluid and innovative research approaches, identify differences from traditional methodologies, and overcome the common challenges faced when carrying out intersectional research. A transdisciplinary group of contributors offer their experience and expertise to provide an overview of key research topics, qualitative and quantitative approaches, and empirical examples of integrating intersectionality research with other critical practices. Examining the foundational texts that explain historical developments in systems of oppression and interdisciplinary research on marginalized communities, state-of the-art chapters explore the intersections emerging in studies of gender and sexuality, capitalism, white supremacy, nationalism, colonialism, climate emergencies, imperial decline, and public health. Reconsidering the ways in which scholar-activists carry out research, the Research Handbook demonstrates how an intersectional gaze and a continued commitment to social justice moves us closer to producing valuable research and, ultimately, transforming knowledge. Advancing innovative and multidisciplinary approaches, this incisive Research Handbook will be an invaluable tool for scholars and researchers hoping to undertake meaningful intersectional research. Its empirical findings will further benefit practitioners tasked with designing intersectional policy. Contents 6 List of contributors 9 Acknowledgements 17 1 Introduction: intersectionality and transforming the production of knowledge • Mary Romero 20 PART I: FOUNDATIONAL RESEARCH 33 2 Ida B. Wells-Barnett, activist and journalist • Lori Amber Roessner 34 3 Anna Julia Cooper (1858–1964): intersectionality and activism • Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge 52 4 Du Boisian sociology and intersectionality • Matthew W. Hughey 70 5 The Social Settlement Movement and activist scholarship • Patricia Madoo Lengermann and Gillian Niebrugge 88 PART II: INTERSECTIONAL RESEARCH IN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 107 SECTION IIA: CRITICAL INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES 108 6 Intersectionality as an ethical commitment • Sophie Withaeckx 109 7 Disability and rural poverty in the global South • Shaun Grech 127 8 Anti-colonial praxis in community-based research in feminist food studies • Barbara Parker 142 SECTION IIB: CRITICAL SEXUALITY STUDIES 161 9 Researching sexuality and state • Jyoti Puri 162 10 Space, place, and urban future • Marcus Anthony Hunter and Terrell J.A. Winder 177 11 Making sexuality, gender, and migration intersectional • Salvador Vidal-Ortiz 189 SECTION IIC: CRITICAL INDIGENOUS STUDIES 204 12 Indigeneity, feminisms, and activism • Renya K. Ramirez 205 13 Intersectionality and ethnography • Robert Keith Collins 223 14 Thrivance: an indigenous queer intersectional methodology • Andrew Jolivétte 242 SECTION IID: CITIZENSHIP STUDIES 257 15 Intersectional insights into lived citizenship • Daniela Cherubini 258 16 Heterosexual marriage-related regimes • Laura Odasso 276 17 Intersectionality, citizenship and labor • Pallavi Banerjee and Carieta O. Thomas 293 18 Gender-based violence and citizenship in a migration context • Evangelia Tastsoglou and Lori Wilkinson 311 PART III: INTERSECTIONALITY AND APPLIED RESEARCH 330 SECTION IIIA: SOCIAL WORK, DISASTER RECOVERY AND HEALTH DISPARITIES 331 19 Intersectionality and immigrant and refugee trauma • Filomena M. Critelli and Asli Cennet Yalim 332 20 Power dynamics driving disasters’ impacts, response, and recovery • Lynn Weber and Anna Smith Pruitt 351 21 Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women’s health • Karen J. Leong, Kathy Nakagawa, and Aggie J. Yellow Horse 370 SECTION IIIB: SOCIAL JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY STUDIES 388 22 Scholar activist intersectional approaches • Akosua Adomako Ampofo 389 23 Multi-level analyses of homecare labor • Cynthia J. Cranford and Jennifer Jihye Chun 404 24 Environmental activism and immigrant women of color • Nadia Y. Kim 423 25 Children’s rights and social change • Brian Gran and Colette Ngana 440 PART IV: INTERSECTIONAL GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES: GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONALISM 461 26 Centering region and multi-scalar lenses • Ghassan Moussawi 462 27 Intersectionality and migrant smuggling research • Gabriella Sanchez 477 28 Intersectionality beyond its traditions • Bandana Purkayastha and Miho Iwata 495 29 Centering intersectionality in transnational research • Anjana Narayan and Erica Morales 513 Index 529