Alicia Smith-Tran
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 257352 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alicia Smith-Tran |
| NOMBRES | Alicia |
| APELLIDO | Smith-Tran |
| FIRMA | SMITH-TRAN A |
| AFILIACIONES | Texas Christian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7745-7410 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Seeing Tensions in Adulthood
Alicia Smith-Tran, Sunny Hunt, Dakota Wynn, Izze Powell, Jonah Covell, and Charlie Kline on the rocky road to "real" adulthood
Age-Centered Racism
This article proposes the concept of age-centered racism as an intersectional framework for better capturing the nuances characterizing how racism and ageism in the United States operate and interlock. I argue that age-centered racism occurs when people draw upon stereotypes and assumptions rooted in ageist ideologies without acknowledging how race is entrenched in and central to problematic, prejudicial statements about racial minorities. The ef…
Pushing Back On “Black Don’t Crack”
On a culture that lauds a youthful appearance, the author reveals how racism, sexism, and ageism combine in ways that uniquely harm Black women as they seek professional respect in White spaces
On the Job, Off the Books
Worker misclassification is a form of precarious employment in which employers illegally designate their employees as 'independent contractors' to cut labor costs. Non-standard employment arrangements and the emergence of the misclassification problem are expressions of neoliberal economic reform and attendant shifts in managerial strategy. Although scholars and government statisticians have documented the prevalence of worker misclassification, …
There's the Black Woman Thing, and There's the Age Thing
This article problematizes the concept of 'Black Don't Crack' and challenges the universal desirability of youthfulness. This study is driven by two research questions: (1) How does the perceived youthfulness of professional Black workers shape their subjective experience of workplace interactions? and (2) What strategies do Black workers use to assert their expertise and legitimacy when confronted with prejudicial attitudes and interactions base…
Expecting in Unexpected Times
This article explores the complexities and contingencies of pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author uses autoethnography to describe the lived experience of navigating the conflicting feelings and nuances of daily life as an expectant person during a global health crisis. In particular, the author is attuned to how one must grapple with both the positive feelings of joy and excitement that accompany many pregnancies, with the more somb…
Professor–Student Interaction in the Midst of Illness
This article explores the complexities of navigating professor-student interaction in the midst of serious illness. Using collaborative autoethnography, the authors describe the experience of a student’s multiple cancer diagnoses, and her professor’s thought processes in deciding the best ways to support her while staying attuned to expectations for professional-personal boundaries in academia. The authors argue that health crises necessitate blu…
Pink and Blue
Finally Something for Us
This study uses life story interviews to understand the utility of Black Girls Run!-a predominantly Black organization for women who engage in recreational distance running. Drawing from Neckerman, Carter, and Lee's conceptual framework of the minority culture of mobility, the author suggests that Black Girls Run! serves the purpose of helping its members confront the challenges and repercussions associated with being a racial minority in a major…
A life course perspective on the start of Black middle-class women’s recreational running careers
This study is informed by two questions: How can studying the biographies of Black middle-class women illustrate how early life experiences shape adulthood health and leisure choices? More specifically, what life course processes affect one’s ability and choice to become a recreational runner? Using life story data, I utilize two interrelated concepts from the life course perspective, cumulative processes and turning points, to highlight how both…
Film Review
Exploring the Benefits and Drawbacks of Age Disclosure among Women Faculty of Color
This article is guided by two questions: How is age an important aspect of social location that, when forthcoming about it with students, can be beneficial for pedagogical purposes? and How can women faculty of color—particularly those who appear youthful and/or are younger than most of their colleagues—address the marginality of their actual and/or perceived age while simultaneously operating in a space that is contested for women of color? I hi…
The “Black Middle-Class Toolkit” as a Framework for Understanding the Cultural Implications of Recreational Running
Alicia Smith-Tran*aa Texas Christian UniversityAlicia Smith-Tran is an assistant professor of sociology at Texas Christian University. Her research focuses on issues related to race, class, and gender, medical sociology, aging, and the sociology of sport
Muscle as medicine
How can women who are coping with a polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) diagnosis and subsequent illness management overcome the emotional tensions that arise? I propose that through strength training, a stereotypically masculine activity, women can re-gain a sense of femininity that is lost while living with the symptoms of this condition. Framing strength training as medicine can give women with PCOS a sense of control and empowerment while deal…
Finally Something for Us
This study uses life story interviews to understand the utility of Black Girls Run!-a predominantly Black organization for women who engage in recreational distance running. Drawing from Neckerman, Carter, and Lee's conceptual framework of the minority culture of mobility, the author suggests that Black Girls Run! serves the purpose of helping its members confront the challenges and repercussions associated with being a racial minority in a major…
Exploring the Benefits and Drawbacks of Age Disclosure among Women Faculty of Color
This article is guided by two questions: How is age an important aspect of social location that, when forthcoming about it with students, can be beneficial for pedagogical purposes? and How can women faculty of color—particularly those who appear youthful and/or are younger than most of their colleagues—address the marginality of their actual and/or perceived age while simultaneously operating in a space that is contested for women of color? I hi…
On the Job, Off the Books
Worker misclassification is a form of precarious employment in which employers illegally designate their employees as 'independent contractors' to cut labor costs. Non-standard employment arrangements and the emergence of the misclassification problem are expressions of neoliberal economic reform and attendant shifts in managerial strategy. Although scholars and government statisticians have documented the prevalence of worker misclassification, …
There's the Black Woman Thing, and There's the Age Thing
This article problematizes the concept of 'Black Don't Crack' and challenges the universal desirability of youthfulness. This study is driven by two research questions: (1) How does the perceived youthfulness of professional Black workers shape their subjective experience of workplace interactions? and (2) What strategies do Black workers use to assert their expertise and legitimacy when confronted with prejudicial attitudes and interactions base…
Professor–Student Interaction in the Midst of Illness
This article explores the complexities of navigating professor-student interaction in the midst of serious illness. Using collaborative autoethnography, the authors describe the experience of a student’s multiple cancer diagnoses, and her professor’s thought processes in deciding the best ways to support her while staying attuned to expectations for professional-personal boundaries in academia. The authors argue that health crises necessitate blu…
Muscle as medicine
How can women who are coping with a polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) diagnosis and subsequent illness management overcome the emotional tensions that arise? I propose that through strength training, a stereotypically masculine activity, women can re-gain a sense of femininity that is lost while living with the symptoms of this condition. Framing strength training as medicine can give women with PCOS a sense of control and empowerment while deal…
The “Black Middle-Class Toolkit” as a Framework for Understanding the Cultural Implications of Recreational Running
Alicia Smith-Tran*aa Texas Christian UniversityAlicia Smith-Tran is an assistant professor of sociology at Texas Christian University. Her research focuses on issues related to race, class, and gender, medical sociology, aging, and the sociology of sport
A life course perspective on the start of Black middle-class women’s recreational running careers
This study is informed by two questions: How can studying the biographies of Black middle-class women illustrate how early life experiences shape adulthood health and leisure choices? More specifically, what life course processes affect one’s ability and choice to become a recreational runner? Using life story data, I utilize two interrelated concepts from the life course perspective, cumulative processes and turning points, to highlight how both…
Film Review
Exploring the Benefits and Drawbacks of Age Disclosure among Women Faculty of Color
This article is guided by two questions: How is age an important aspect of social location that, when forthcoming about it with students, can be beneficial for pedagogical purposes? and How can women faculty of color—particularly those who appear youthful and/or are younger than most of their colleagues—address the marginality of their actual and/or perceived age while simultaneously operating in a space that is contested for women of color? I hi…
Finally Something for Us
This study uses life story interviews to understand the utility of Black Girls Run!-a predominantly Black organization for women who engage in recreational distance running. Drawing from Neckerman, Carter, and Lee's conceptual framework of the minority culture of mobility, the author suggests that Black Girls Run! serves the purpose of helping its members confront the challenges and repercussions associated with being a racial minority in a major…
Expecting in Unexpected Times
This article explores the complexities and contingencies of pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author uses autoethnography to describe the lived experience of navigating the conflicting feelings and nuances of daily life as an expectant person during a global health crisis. In particular, the author is attuned to how one must grapple with both the positive feelings of joy and excitement that accompany many pregnancies, with the more somb…
Professor–Student Interaction in the Midst of Illness
This article explores the complexities of navigating professor-student interaction in the midst of serious illness. Using collaborative autoethnography, the authors describe the experience of a student’s multiple cancer diagnoses, and her professor’s thought processes in deciding the best ways to support her while staying attuned to expectations for professional-personal boundaries in academia. The authors argue that health crises necessitate blu…
Pink and Blue
On the Job, Off the Books
Worker misclassification is a form of precarious employment in which employers illegally designate their employees as 'independent contractors' to cut labor costs. Non-standard employment arrangements and the emergence of the misclassification problem are expressions of neoliberal economic reform and attendant shifts in managerial strategy. Although scholars and government statisticians have documented the prevalence of worker misclassification, …
There's the Black Woman Thing, and There's the Age Thing
This article problematizes the concept of 'Black Don't Crack' and challenges the universal desirability of youthfulness. This study is driven by two research questions: (1) How does the perceived youthfulness of professional Black workers shape their subjective experience of workplace interactions? and (2) What strategies do Black workers use to assert their expertise and legitimacy when confronted with prejudicial attitudes and interactions base…
Pushing Back On “Black Don’t Crack”
On a culture that lauds a youthful appearance, the author reveals how racism, sexism, and ageism combine in ways that uniquely harm Black women as they seek professional respect in White spaces
Seeing Tensions in Adulthood
Alicia Smith-Tran, Sunny Hunt, Dakota Wynn, Izze Powell, Jonah Covell, and Charlie Kline on the rocky road to "real" adulthood
Age-Centered Racism
This article proposes the concept of age-centered racism as an intersectional framework for better capturing the nuances characterizing how racism and ageism in the United States operate and interlock. I argue that age-centered racism occurs when people draw upon stereotypes and assumptions rooted in ageist ideologies without acknowledging how race is entrenched in and central to problematic, prejudicial statements about racial minorities. The ef…
Sociology (11 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Psychology (9 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Political science (6 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Narrative (4 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Black women (3 obras)