Abstract
This article presents the findings of a systematic review of the empirical literature related to Black American same-sex couples (BASCs). We found 16 articles that met inclusion criteria. Most articles were published in journals that focused on interdisciplinary studies, HIV/AIDS, and couples and families’ studies. Approximately 63% of the articles reported external funding support. However, only one of these grants was awarded to a Black investigator. Articles predominately focused on BASCs composed of Black sexual minority men residing in major U.S. cities. Only 25% of the articles focused on couples where both partners were Black. Most studies were cross-sectional, used convenience samples, and were reported without mention of a theoretical framework that explicated the philosophical assumptions that guided the research. The articles focused on a range of topics such as resilience, relationship dynamics, couple-level social support, rituals with extended families, and partner-health associations. The implications of these findings for advancing culturally-specific behavioral and social science health research and interventions with BASCs are presented.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 555-567 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Journal of sex research |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2022 |
Funding
This work was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health under Grants P30-MH43520, R25MH067127, T32MH019139; and the National Institute on Drug Abuse under Grant K24DA037034. The first author would like to acknowledge Kainaat Anwar for her work on formatting tables, figures, and references. Ten out of the 16 articles (62.50%) reported some type of external funding (see ). Some of the articles reported multiple sources of funding awarded to one or more of its authors. Therefore, the percentages below may exceed 100%. Approximately 31% of the articles reported funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Of the articles that reported NIH funding, 80% of those funds were awarded through training grants or career development awards with only two articles reporting funding from R01 grants. None of the NIH grants were awarded directly to Black American PIs. However, monies from one of the NIH training grants was awarded to a Black male as a subaward PI. Overall, four of the 10 (40%) articles reported funding awarded to White women, one reported funding to a White man, and the other two articles reported funding awarded to an Asian woman and an Asian man, respectively. Only one article was supported by funding awarded to a Black PI. This funding was provided by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to a Black woman. There were three articles that reported funding to authors whose race could not be ascertained. These articles included one that reported funding from the CDC, one that reported funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and one that reported funding from three governmental agencies in Spain. We were unable to determine the demographics of the grant PIs for these articles as the grant details could not be found in online databases or ascertained from CVs.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gender Studies
- Sociology and Political Science
- General Psychology
- History and Philosophy of Science
