Grant: Doctoral Research Award - PA: Aboriginal Research Methodologies

Lay Abstract: For decades now social and cultural determinants of health-focused research has pointed to race and ethnicity as key determinants. Yet race and ethnicity require further consideration in the health studies , and for its implications for applied research. This project aims to understand how these determinants of health, in relation to others, shape the sexual health (and vulnerability to HIV) of people who engage in interracial and interethnic intimate relationships in Winnipeg. This research will utilize an anthropological approach through the analysis of sexual health discourses circulating in the city, through spatial mapping of social relationships, and through in-depth interviews with key informants and people engaged in interracial intimate relationships. This study will contribute to the increased body of literature on health disparities by providing important insight into how complex forms of racial inequality take shape in the interracial relationships occurring between two marginalized populations in Winnipeg.