Intersectional Cultural Humility: Aligning Critical Inquiry with Critical Praxis in Psychology

Abstract

This special issue is an interdisciplinary collection on intersectionality theory as critical inquiry and praxis. This paper challenges cultural competence models and argues instead for intersectional cultural humility in theory, practice, and teaching. We first provide a brief review of the development of intersectionality theory and future directions for its application. Then, we critique cultural competence models and compare their assumptions to those of intersectional cultural humility. Finally, we demonstrate that intersectional cultural humility aligns critical inquiry with critical praxis, and as such, it is an important and useful framework to guide research, teaching, and practice.

Keywords:

• Cultural competence
• cultural humility
• intersectional
• intersectionality
• pedagogy
• praxis