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      Silenced Knowing: An Intersectional Framework for Exploring Black Women's Health and Diasporic Identities

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          Understanding the needs of Black women within a cultural and medical framework which recognizes the impact on health and well-being on the spaces where culture, health, and expectation intersect remains a challenge. In the UK, Black women are often more likely to have poor prognosis, worse outcomes and greater morbidity from treatable and preventable health conditions than their white peers. UK researchers have struggled to find a culturally appropriate safe methodological framework to help explore the challenges faced by Black women and their families in safeguarding their health, particularly around sensitive issues such as sexual and reproductive health. This article presents a relatively new intersectional framework which has been use for conducting health research on culturally sensitive health issues. The Silences Framework introduces the notion of “Screaming Silences.” Screaming Silences (or Silences) reflect the unsaid or unshared aspects of how beliefs, values and experiences of (or about) some groups affect their health and life chances. The article will explore how, the framework aligns with existing Intersectional approaches and how it could be used to expose intersectional nature of issues which influence and inform both individual and group understandings Black Women's health using examples relating to sexual health and life chances for Black women in the Diaspora.

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            The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this general consensus, definitions of what counts as intersectionality are far from clear. In this article, I analyze intersectionality as a knowledge project whose raison d'être lies in its attentiveness to power relations and social inequalities. I examine three interdependent sets of concerns: (a) intersectionality as a field of study that is situated within the power relations that it studies; (b) intersectionality as an analytical strategy that provides new angles of vision on social phenomena; and (c) intersectionality as critical praxis that informs social justice projects.
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                Journal
                Front Sociol
                Front Sociol
                Front. Sociol.
                Frontiers in Sociology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                2297-7775
                07 February 2020
                2020
                : 5
                : 1
                Affiliations
                Faculty of Health, Psychology and Social Care, Manchester Metropolitan University , Manchester, United Kingdom
                Author notes

                Edited by: Jenny Douglas, The Open University, United Kingdom

                Reviewed by: Nicole Farris, Texas A&M University Commerce, United States; Magdalena Zadkowska, University of Gdansk, Poland

                *Correspondence: Laura Serrant l.serrant@ 123456mmu.ac.uk

                This article was submitted to Gender, Sex and Sexualities, a section of the journal Frontiers in Sociology

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                10.3389/fsoc.2020.00001
                8022544
                33869410
                d5d73136-059f-49be-adae-718e312c639b
                Copyright © 2020 Serrant.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 09 April 2019
                : 10 January 2020
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 60, Pages: 9, Words: 8584
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                Sociology
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                intersectionality,screaming silences,black women's sexual and reproductive health,the silences framework,diaspora research,marginalized perspectives

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