October Salon - Lynet Uttal
October 12, 2022
Salon Topic:
Twenty Years Later: Revisiting and Re-Imagining the Methodological and Analytical Challenges of Qualitative Intersectionality Research

Salon Guests:
Lynet Uttal, PhD, MSW
Therapist and Emeritus Professor, Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Salon Description:
Professor Uttal will discuss how she is reimagining intersectionality twenty years after co-writing the 1999 Race, Gender, and Class article, "Intersectionality and In-Depth Interviews: Methodological Strategies for Analyzing Race, Class, and Gender"; the article that Intersectionality Training Institute Founder, Lisa Bowleg continues to rave about and has proclaimed, “one of the best methodological articles about intersectionality research ever written.” Professor Uttal will revisit the 1999 article, and answer questions such as: Why did they write this piece? How has their thinking about analyzing race, class and gender in qualitative intersectionality research changed? What questions and methodological dilemmas do we still need to tackle in qualitative intersectionality research? Then, she will ask the salonistes to share your hopes and critical thinking for re-imagining the application of intersectionality to social and behavioral science research. Lisa is beyond excited about this salon and strongly encourages you to read their article (see citation below) in advance of the salon.
Guest Bio:
Dr. Lynet Uttal is in her second act as a practicing therapist after retiring as a full professor in 2019. She continues to think about intersectionality, community-based participatory action research, with a focus on Latino immigrants and Hmong refugees. She was awarded the 2020 Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award for inspiring her student, Nou Yang, to make a difference in her community by creating a youth development empowerment process.
- Zavella, P. (2017). Intersectional praxis in the movement for reproductive justice: The respect ABQ women campaign. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 42(2), 509-533. https://doi.org/10.1086/688188
- Cuádraz, G.H. (2018). The Mobilization and Immobilization of ‘Legally Imported Aliens’: Cotton in the Salt River Valley, 1917-1921. In L. Plascencia and G.H. Cuádraz (Eds.), Mexican Workers and the Making of Arizona (pp. 90-123). Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
- Uttal, L., & Frausto, L. R. (2021). Collecting immigrant voices to inform a participant-centered dialogical facilitation method. Qualitative Social Work, 20(5), 1393-1411. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473325020968899
- Uttal, L. (2006). Organizational cultural competency: Shifting programs for Latino immigrants from a client-centered to a community-based orientation. American Journal of Community Psychology, 38(3), 251-262. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-006-9075-y