The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health

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

Biography

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. Roy’s 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.

“This handbook marks a major achievement in extending our explorations of interracial and intercultural unions - especially in terms of the emphasis on well-being and the variable ways in which these relationships are experienced. Many studies on mixed unions are still limited by a reliance on 'classical' Western theories of intermarriage and integration. There is impressive global coverage of mixed unions, and how the specific contexts and histories of disparate societies shape how interracial and intercultural unions are perceived, experienced, and navigated. This volume will be a hugely valuable resource for researchers, teachers, and students in many disciplines.”
Miri Song, PhD, professor of sociology, University of Kent

“The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health is centered on a topic of great importance, which has been underrepresented in psychology. This comprehensive text provides a historical account of interracial and intercultural unions, and it also presents several contexts (e.g., geographical) by which to conceptualize such unions. Also, this handbook is innovative in that it examines topics such as gender, queerness, and parenting, to name but a few examples. This resource is sure to help psychologists move beyond Western, binary understanding of relationships, and it will provide helpful clinical applications to anyone supporting individuals in interracial and intercultural unions.”
Anusha Kassan, PhD, RPsych, associate professor, school and applied child psychology, University of British Columbia

“The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health provides timely insights into the multifaceted nature of interracial and intercultural relationships across the globe. Editors Raghunandan, Moodley, and Kenney, have compilated an extraordinary assemblage of critical mixed-race scholars and clinicians from around the world whose needed intersectional perspectives challenge dominant narratives of race that pathologize interracial partnerships. This handbook serves as an important resource for scholars and practitioners interested in understanding the dynamic interplay of race, culture, and identity in intimate partnership and its influence on mental wellbeing.”
Kelly Faye Jackson, MSW, PhD, co-author of Multiracial Cultural Attunement