Abstract:
White supremacy and racial inequities have long pervaded psychological research, including body image scholarship and practice. The experiences of white, heterosexual, able-bodied, cisgender (predominantly college) women from wealthy, Westernized nations have been centered throughout body image research and practice, thereby perpetuating myths of invulnerability among racialized groups and casting white ideals and experiences as the standard by which marginalized bodies are compared. Body image is shaped by multiple axes of oppression that exist within systemic and structural systems, ultimately privileging certain bodies above others. In this position paper, we highlight how white supremacy has shaped body image research and practice. In doing so, we first review the history of body image research and explain how participant sampling, measurement, interpretive frameworks, and dissemination of research have upheld and reinforced white supremacy. Next, grounded in inclusivity and intersectionality, we advance the Sociostructural-Intersectional Body Image (SIBI) framework to more fully understand the body image experiences of those with racialized and minoritized bodies, while challenging and seeking to upend white supremacy in body image research and practice. We encourage other scholars to utilize the SIBI framework to better understand body inequities and the body image experiences of all people, in all bodies.
摘要:
白人至上和种族不平等长期以来一直弥漫在心理学研究中,包括身体形象奖学金和实践。白色的经验,异性恋,健全,cisgender(主要是大学)来自富人的女性,西方国家一直以身体形象研究和实践为中心,从而延续种族群体中无懈可击的神话,并将白人理想和经验作为比较边缘化身体的标准。身体形象是由系统和结构系统中存在的多个压迫轴形成的,最终使某些机构优先于其他机构。在这份立场文件中,我们强调白人至上如何塑造身体形象研究和实践。在这样做的时候,我们首先回顾身体图像研究的历史,并解释参与者抽样,测量,解释性框架,研究的传播维护和加强了白人至上。接下来,植根于包容性和交叉性,我们推进社会结构-交叉身体形象(SIBI)框架,以更充分地了解那些具有种族化和小型化身体的人的身体形象体验,同时在身体形象研究和实践中挑战和寻求颠覆白人至上主义。我们鼓励其他学者利用SIBI框架来更好地理解身体不平等和所有人的身体形象体验,在所有的身体。