Introduction to the Special Issue

Buehler, Cheryl; Few‐Demo, April L.

doi:10.1111/jftr.12266

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“…Recently, in recognition of the challenges of representing cultural factors in existing theoretical models, family scholars have begun to generate culture‐specific models. Indeed, the Journal of Family Theory & Review recently published a series of articles that the special issue editors Buehler and Few‐Demo () described as revisioning family theories by centering race and ethnicity. Queer theorists have likewise revealed the heteronormative assumptions, as well as assumptions of pathology and deviance, that run throughout classic family theories and models (Van Eeden‐Moorefield, ).…”

Section: Surfacing Family Privilege In Family Science: Theorizing Abomentioning

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Surfacing Family Privilege and Supremacy in Family Science: Toward Justice for All

Letiecq

2019

J of Family Theo & Revie

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In family science, a great deal of scholarly work has focused on marginalized and disadvantaged families with stated goals of improving family outcomes and well‐being. Yet little attention has been paid to family privilege and the ways in which the advantages of privileged families are maintained within a White heteronormative hegemonic society to the continued disadvantage of others. In this article, I define family privilege and consider how it intersects with other privileges (e.g., White privilege) to maintain the supremacy of the Standard North American Family. I theorize how family privilege is masked yet perpetuated and instantiated in the field of family science. I conclude with a discussion of approaches that family scientists can employ to surface and redress family privilege in the self, family privilege in family theories and methods, and the mechanisms that perpetuate family privilege and the maintenance of advantage. This work is critical to advancing family equality and social justice.

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Surfacing Family Privilege and Supremacy in Family Science: Toward Justice for All

Letiecq

2019

J of Family Theo & Revie

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“…Calls to consider the sociocultural context of Black families have been made for decades (Allen, 1995; Burton et al, 2010; McAdoo, 1998), and more recently, Buehler and Few‐Demo (2018) tasked family and developmental scholars to answer calls to integrate critical race theory and intersectionality into family science. Revising theories to center race and ethnicity provides greater utility for racial and ethnic minorities than frameworks that do not incorporate aspects of race and ethnicity (Murry et al, 2018).…”

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Development of the racial and ethnic discrimination stress model

Wilkins‐Clark,

Gray,

Ferraro

2024

J of Family Theo & Revie

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Family stress models have been used extensively in family science for decades and have demonstrated utility in the examination of familial responses to stressors. Although these models have been applied to research on Black families and researchers have more recently considered the impact of integrated sociocultural context and reconceptualized models accordingly, current models do not fully explain outcomes associated with mundane extreme environmental stress (MEES) and the simultaneous influence of an iterative meaning‐making process. To address this gap, we extend the contextual model of family stress, by integrating the MEES concept and propositions from symbolic interactionism, family systems theory, and ecological theory. We introduce the racial and ethnic discrimination stress model (RED‐SM), a conceptual framework, to explain how the mundane extreme environment, resources, and socialization messages contribute to a meaning‐making process that influences adjustment outcomes for Black individuals. We conclude by offering suggestions for its usage in family science research.

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“…Although this issue is a first of its kind collaboration, we acknowledge the critical contributions of many scholars (e.g., Allen, 1978; Anderson, 2019; Billingsley, 1968; Collins, 1986; Du Bois, 2016 [1903]), prior related special issues and collections (e.g., Buehler & Few‐Demo, 2018; James & McGeorge, 2019; Murry et al, 2001), and those additional special issues published around the same time (e.g., Cooper et al, 2022) as this volume. We also acknowledge the related efforts by many within NCFR (e.g., the Inclusion and Diversity Committee, Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Families Section, Social Justice Focus Group).…”

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confidence: 99%