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Queering Family Scholarship: Theorizing from the Borderlands
Author(s) -
Acosta Katie L.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of family theory and review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.454
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1756-2589
pISSN - 1756-2570
DOI - 10.1111/jftr.12263
Subject(s) - scholarship , queer , intersectionality , queer theory , sociology , gender studies , identity (music) , subject (documents) , critical race theory , white (mutation) , race (biology) , aesthetics , political science , law , art , biochemistry , chemistry , library science , computer science , gene
In this article, I explore the potential in producing queerer intersectional family scholarship for the advancement of theory. I offer an analysis of the ways queer theory enriches family scholarship while remaining critical of how its inattention to race as an identity category has limited its potential and scholarly theorizing across difference. I highlight queer Latinx family research to illustrate some of the nuance that is missing in scholarship that centers only a White middle‐class subject. I suggest that scholars take note of how queer feminists of color have approached building theory in the flesh. I offer that queerer intersectional family scholarship should occur from the borderlands. Doing so furthers an important goal in queerer family scholarship: to better attend to lived experience and develop a more intersectional theory.