Abstract There is little empirical or conceptual literature about depression among middle-class Black women, as the majority of the depression research focuses on low-income Black women or middle-class White women. While some work has been done to explore the ways in which race, class, and gender intersect to influence depression among Black women in general, more scholarship that puts forth an intersectional, cultural, and person-in-environment frame to contextualize the experiences of depression among middle-class Black women is needed. In this article, the authors provide a brief overview of the empirical literature on depression among middle-class Black women, present data from 30 in-depth and semistructured interviews with middle-class Black women to explore how race, class, gender, and culture intersect in these women’s lives, and put forth recommendations for clinicians and suggestions for interventions.

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闻所未闻的声音：了解中产阶级黑人女性抑郁症的交叉方法

摘要 关于中产阶级黑人女性抑郁症的实证或概念文献很少，因为大多数抑郁症研究都集中在低收入黑人女性或中产阶级白人女性身上。虽然已经做了一些工作来探索种族、阶级和性别的交叉方式来影响一般黑人女性的抑郁症，但更多的学术研究提出了一个交叉的、文化的和人在环境中的框架来将她们的经历置于语境中。中产阶级黑人女性需要抑郁。在本文中，作者简要概述了有关中产阶级黑人女性抑郁症的实证文献，提供了来自对中产阶级黑人女性的 30 次深入和半结构化访谈的数据，以探讨种族、阶级、性别和文化如何交织在这些女性的生活中，