Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships

The Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships is devoted to addressing the epistemological, ontological, and social construction of sexual expression and relationships of persons within the African diaspora. The journal seeks to take into account the transhistorical substrates that subsume behavioral, affective, and cognitive functioning of persons of African descent as well as those who educate or clinically serve this important population. Quantitative, qualitative, and conceptual, articles, book reviews, and letters to the editor address various cultural substrates (e.g., age, race, gender, sexual orientation/identities, ability, spirituality, etc.) that intersect or weave themselves in/out of sexual expression, romantic relationships, and/or friendships. Interdisciplinary in nature, the journal includes perspectives from a variety of fields including psychology, sociology, education, psychiatry, human development, social work, social policy, and anthropology.

Volume 6, Number 2 (Fall 2019)
Special Issue: Polyamory and Other Relational Constellations
Contents

Editor’s Note: Black and Polyamorous
Ruby Bouie Johnson

“We Don’t Do That!”: Consensual Non-Monogamy in HBO’s Insecure
Apryl A. Alexander

Monogamies, Non-Monogamies, and the Moral Impermissibility of Intimacy Confining Constraints
Justin Leonard Clardy

Black American Couples’ Perceptions of the Significance of Race and Racial Conversations in Therapy: A Qualitative Study
Marjorie Nightingale, Shawn C. T. Jones, and Symphonie D. Smith

A Re-Examination of African American College Women’s Body Image Pathology
Courtney Williams, Mikerobert Joseph, Amani Wise, Maia Crumbie, and Jonathan N. Livingston

Relax and Relate: The Interaction of Drugs and Relationships
Kimberly Lawrence, Kimberly Boyd, Vernessa Clark, Jessica Brooks, Retta Brown, Dhymsy Vixamar-Owens, Christina Denslinger, Malik Williams, and Charde Washington

The Internalization of Femininity/Womanhood: A Duo-Ethnographic Exploration of the Impact on the Understanding of the Relational Self
O’Shan D. Gadsden and Mica McGriggs

Statement of Publishing Ethics

Submissions
Send manuscripts electronically using Microsoft Word to James C. Wadley, Ph.D at jwadley@lincoln.edu AND ABSC1041@gmail.com

Each manuscript must be accompanied by a statement that it has not been sent for publication or published elsewhere.  As an author, you are required to secure permission if you want to reproduce any figure, table, or extract from the text of another source.  All figures should be camera ready.

All parts of the manuscript should be typewritten, double-spaced, with margins of at least one inch on all sides.  Quantitative manuscripts should not exceed 30 pages total (including cover page, abstract, text, references, tables, and figures), with margins of at least 1 inch on all sides and a standard font (e.g., Times New Roman) of 12 points (no smaller).  Qualitative manuscripts should not exceed 40 pages. For papers that exceed page limits, authors must provide a rationale to justify the extended length in their cover letter (e.g., multiple studies are reported). Papers that do not conform to these guidelines may be returned with instructions to revise before a peer review is invited.

The manuscript files should be submitted in MS Word (Windows Vista users, please save your files as an earlier ".doc" filetype). Include (1) the manuscript title and running head; (2) all author names, affiliations, mailing addresses, and e-mail addresses (indicate who the corresponding author for the article should be); (3) any acknowledgments; and (4) brief biographical paragraphs (50 words or less) describing each author’s current affiliation and research interests.

Authors should also supply a shortened version of the title suitable for the running head, not exceeding 50 character spaces.  Each article should be summarized in an abstract of no more than 100 words.  Avoid abbreviations, diagrams, and reference to the text. Format for references and citations should conform to the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association.  This may be ordered from the Publication Department, American Psychological Association, 750 First Street, NE, Washington D.C. 20002-4242, phone (202)336-5500, fax (202)336-5502.

Book Reviews
Book reviews should be sent to the attention of the editor (address above). Review essays as well as bibliographic articles and compilations are sought. Potential contributors of such material are advised to correspond with the editor.

Peer Review Policy
All research articles in this journal undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymous refereeing by two anonymous referees.

Please allow 3-5 months for review of all submitted articles.

James C. Wadley, Lincoln University

Twinet Parmer, Central Michigan University

Bridgette Peteet, University of Cincinnati

Sheila V. Baldwin, Columbia College Chicago

Juan Battle, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Fred A. Bonner II, Prairie View A&M University

Shanna Broussard, Texas Southern University

Crystal Rae Coel, Murray State University

Zupenda Davis-Shine, Burlington County Health Department

Monique Howard, Women Organized Against Rape (WOAR)

Felicia Fisher, University of Houston

Karen Flynn, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Spelman College

Anita Hawkins, Morgan State University

Leah P. Hollis, Morgan State University

Larry D. Icard, Temple University

George James, Thomas Jefferson University/Council for Relationships

Doreen Loury, Arcadia University

Aretha Faye Marbley, Texas Tech University

Kenneth Monteiro, San Francisco State University

Wilfridah Mucherah, Ball State University

Valerie Newsome, National Development & Research Institutes

Leon Rouson, Norfolk State University

Jeanine Staples, Penn State University

Dionne Stephens, Florida International University

The Association of Black Sexologists and Clinicians will change or enhance the way you think about intersectionality. In addition, we strive to offer research, clinical, and educational opportunities that revolve around sexuality and race. We seek to empower our community by engaging, informing, dialoguing, learning and collaborating about sexual health issues.

• Build and sustain Black professional community involvement in the field of human sexuality and mental health.
• Engage in ongoing formal and informal dialogue about social and sexual health issues that affect persons of African descent and those who serve this unique population.
• Develop and support prevention, educational, and clinical response systems that reduce the prevalence of sexual health disparities.
• Create regional, national, and international linkages for members.
• Serve as a resource for research, educational, and clinical mental health initiatives.