Allison Daniel Anders
Biographic Data
| ID | 101956 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allison Daniel Anders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allison Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Anders |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERS A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3577-321X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Critical Race Methodologies
Critical Race scholars draw on multiple bodies of knowledge to analyze, understand, and critique the reproduction of social structures that abridge equal protections for all people in the United States. Originating in the critical legal tradition of the 1970s/1980s, Critical Race scholars invoke etic, and emic, perspectives in their shared commitment to racial and social justice. Within the field, Critical Race scholars have developed a set of me…
Postcritical Ethnography
The authors introduce postcritical ethnography, both as a historical epoch that followed the failures of and departures from critical ethnography and as a set of engagements in qualitative inquiry. Discussing critical turns toward emic approaches to research, interpretivism, and Critical Theory, the authors provide historical context for what became critical ethnography and the crisis of representation. They address the influence of postmodernism…
Evolutions in Critical and Postcritical Ethnography: Crafting Approaches
This book provides an overview of the evolutions of critical and postcritical ethnography and uses exemplar studies.
Evolutions in Critical and Postcritical Ethnography: Crafting Approaches
Critical Turns in Ethnography
“Take a Mental Break”: Examining the Coping Efforts of Black College Students Exposed to Police Killings
Given the repeated police killings of unarmed Black people and their increasing visibility because of recent technological advances, Black people are especially vulnerable to adverse mental health effects. However, little is known about how they attempt to cope with these incidents or how their efforts may affect their mental health. Informed by trauma theory and stress, appraisal, and coping theory, this study used semi-structured in-depth inter…
Looking Back to Look Forward: Exploring Crenshaw's Political, Structural, and Representational Intersectionality in Sport
Engaging with Kimberlé Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality, the authors (re)turn to its genesis in critical race theory (CRT) and specifically, its forms of structural intersectionality, political intersectionality, and representational intersectionality. Discussing each form in relation to contemporary issues in sport that Black women and women of Color navigate, they argue that Crenshaw's intersectionality provides additional compelling lay…
Black and Blue: An integrated conceptual framework for understanding the trauma and mental impacts of police violence exposure in Black communities
Because repeated incidents of police violence against unarmed Black people are increasingly visible, as a result of technological advances, there is growing need to understand their potentially traumatic mental health effects for other Black people. This narrative review provides an overview of critical race theory, the stress, appraisal, and coping theory, trauma theory, racial trauma theory, and emotional contagion theory to develop an integrat…
Am I Next: A qualitative study of Black college students' experiences of stress, trauma, and grief from exposures to police killings
There is little research that explores the experiences of Black people exposed to police killings of other unarmed Blacks, despite the fact these incidents repeatedly and disproportionately affect this population. While some quantitative studies have examined the impacts of police violence exposure on mental health in recent years, there remains a dearth of in-depth qualitative research exploring the processes through which chronic exposures to p…
China Virus' and 'Kung-Flu: A Critical Race Case Study of Asian American Journalists' Experiences During Covid-19
The researchers designed a critical race case study to represent media coverage by and experiences of Asian American1 journalists during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. After analyzing data inductively, the researchers drew upon critical race theory scholarship to apply the theoretical concepts of race consciousness, whiteness as property, and the hegemony of racial hierarchy to analyze Asian American journalists' expe…
Coaches, gender non-conforming youth and athletics: Examining male identity and masculine expression
Participation in athletics by gender non-conforming (GNC) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) is lower in comparison to their participation in other school activities; LGBT students avoid athletic fields, locker rooms, and coaches. We examine the ways DeVita, a GNC student athlete in high school negotiated his identity, expression, and sexual orientation as an accomplished classical ballet dancer and all-conference…
Examining Loss: Postcritical Ethnography and the Pursuit of What Could Be Otherwise
In this article, we argue that loss often precedes critique in postcritical ethnographic work. We position this argument in relation to the moral and the political commitments that imbue postcritical ethnography, noting how a postcritical perspective invites researchers to theorize and imagine what could be otherwise. We ground our discussion in a 4-year ethnography we carried out with Burundians with refugee status living in southern Appalachia …
Un-Naming Collaboration: An Unexpected Catalyst for Understanding Participation in Critical Ethnography
In this article, we trace interactions with participants in two different research projects. Although the research settings were different, we focus on what the projects had in common: a commitment to collaboration, methodological training from the same faculty, and our respective decisions to turn away from labeling our work collaborative deep into each project’s development. In a narrative as chronicle, we represent ways each project unfolded a…
Lessons from interdisciplinary qualitative research: Learning to Work Against a Single Story
In this article, we consider the everyday practices and methodological and theoretical tensions of interdisciplinary, qualitative work. In particular, we discuss the varied interpretations of focus group data from Burundian men and women with refugee status and explore the consequences of representations that result in deficit-based understandings. We highlight how through our research process we learned that following participants, rather than l…
Navigating Authoritarian Power in the United States: Families With Refugee Status and Allegorical Representation
Beginning in 2007, government agencies and faith-based organizations resettled Burundians with refugee status in a small town in Appalachia. From a part of a larger, 4-year ethnographic study, in this article, we address the experience of one family in that community. Specifically, we detail the power non-Native, whitestream, racist institutions deploy to do harm. Using allegory, we represent the effects of policy and practice at the public eleme…
Lessons From a Postcritical Ethnography, Burundian Children With Refugee Status, and Their Teachers
This article represents one orientation to postcritical ethnography. Framing research with Burundian children and their teachers in a small city in Appalachia, the author shares the ways postcritical ethnography informed the process and representations of her work. After introducing postcritical ethnography and early beginnings to the research, the author reviews some of the issues children with refugee status endure in U.S. public schools. Using…
Circuits of Dominance in Education and Poverty: Control Logic and Counter Narrative
Mi Vida Loca
Am I Next: A qualitative study of Black college students' experiences of stress, trauma, and grief from exposures to police killings
There is little research that explores the experiences of Black people exposed to police killings of other unarmed Blacks, despite the fact these incidents repeatedly and disproportionately affect this population. While some quantitative studies have examined the impacts of police violence exposure on mental health in recent years, there remains a dearth of in-depth qualitative research exploring the processes through which chronic exposures to p…
Lessons From a Postcritical Ethnography, Burundian Children With Refugee Status, and Their Teachers
This article represents one orientation to postcritical ethnography. Framing research with Burundian children and their teachers in a small city in Appalachia, the author shares the ways postcritical ethnography informed the process and representations of her work. After introducing postcritical ethnography and early beginnings to the research, the author reviews some of the issues children with refugee status endure in U.S. public schools. Using…
China Virus' and 'Kung-Flu: A Critical Race Case Study of Asian American Journalists' Experiences During Covid-19
The researchers designed a critical race case study to represent media coverage by and experiences of Asian American1 journalists during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. After analyzing data inductively, the researchers drew upon critical race theory scholarship to apply the theoretical concepts of race consciousness, whiteness as property, and the hegemony of racial hierarchy to analyze Asian American journalists' expe…
Lessons from interdisciplinary qualitative research: Learning to Work Against a Single Story
In this article, we consider the everyday practices and methodological and theoretical tensions of interdisciplinary, qualitative work. In particular, we discuss the varied interpretations of focus group data from Burundian men and women with refugee status and explore the consequences of representations that result in deficit-based understandings. We highlight how through our research process we learned that following participants, rather than l…
Black and Blue: An integrated conceptual framework for understanding the trauma and mental impacts of police violence exposure in Black communities
Because repeated incidents of police violence against unarmed Black people are increasingly visible, as a result of technological advances, there is growing need to understand their potentially traumatic mental health effects for other Black people. This narrative review provides an overview of critical race theory, the stress, appraisal, and coping theory, trauma theory, racial trauma theory, and emotional contagion theory to develop an integrat…
Looking Back to Look Forward: Exploring Crenshaw's Political, Structural, and Representational Intersectionality in Sport
Engaging with Kimberlé Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality, the authors (re)turn to its genesis in critical race theory (CRT) and specifically, its forms of structural intersectionality, political intersectionality, and representational intersectionality. Discussing each form in relation to contemporary issues in sport that Black women and women of Color navigate, they argue that Crenshaw's intersectionality provides additional compelling lay…
Examining Loss: Postcritical Ethnography and the Pursuit of What Could Be Otherwise
In this article, we argue that loss often precedes critique in postcritical ethnographic work. We position this argument in relation to the moral and the political commitments that imbue postcritical ethnography, noting how a postcritical perspective invites researchers to theorize and imagine what could be otherwise. We ground our discussion in a 4-year ethnography we carried out with Burundians with refugee status living in southern Appalachia …
Navigating Authoritarian Power in the United States: Families With Refugee Status and Allegorical Representation
Beginning in 2007, government agencies and faith-based organizations resettled Burundians with refugee status in a small town in Appalachia. From a part of a larger, 4-year ethnographic study, in this article, we address the experience of one family in that community. Specifically, we detail the power non-Native, whitestream, racist institutions deploy to do harm. Using allegory, we represent the effects of policy and practice at the public eleme…
Coaches, gender non-conforming youth and athletics: Examining male identity and masculine expression
Participation in athletics by gender non-conforming (GNC) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) is lower in comparison to their participation in other school activities; LGBT students avoid athletic fields, locker rooms, and coaches. We examine the ways DeVita, a GNC student athlete in high school negotiated his identity, expression, and sexual orientation as an accomplished classical ballet dancer and all-conference…
Mi Vida Loca
Circuits of Dominance in Education and Poverty: Control Logic and Counter Narrative
Lessons From a Postcritical Ethnography, Burundian Children With Refugee Status, and Their Teachers
This article represents one orientation to postcritical ethnography. Framing research with Burundian children and their teachers in a small city in Appalachia, the author shares the ways postcritical ethnography informed the process and representations of her work. After introducing postcritical ethnography and early beginnings to the research, the author reviews some of the issues children with refugee status endure in U.S. public schools. Using…
Navigating Authoritarian Power in the United States: Families With Refugee Status and Allegorical Representation
Beginning in 2007, government agencies and faith-based organizations resettled Burundians with refugee status in a small town in Appalachia. From a part of a larger, 4-year ethnographic study, in this article, we address the experience of one family in that community. Specifically, we detail the power non-Native, whitestream, racist institutions deploy to do harm. Using allegory, we represent the effects of policy and practice at the public eleme…
Lessons from interdisciplinary qualitative research: Learning to Work Against a Single Story
In this article, we consider the everyday practices and methodological and theoretical tensions of interdisciplinary, qualitative work. In particular, we discuss the varied interpretations of focus group data from Burundian men and women with refugee status and explore the consequences of representations that result in deficit-based understandings. We highlight how through our research process we learned that following participants, rather than l…
Un-Naming Collaboration: An Unexpected Catalyst for Understanding Participation in Critical Ethnography
In this article, we trace interactions with participants in two different research projects. Although the research settings were different, we focus on what the projects had in common: a commitment to collaboration, methodological training from the same faculty, and our respective decisions to turn away from labeling our work collaborative deep into each project’s development. In a narrative as chronicle, we represent ways each project unfolded a…
Coaches, gender non-conforming youth and athletics: Examining male identity and masculine expression
Participation in athletics by gender non-conforming (GNC) and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) is lower in comparison to their participation in other school activities; LGBT students avoid athletic fields, locker rooms, and coaches. We examine the ways DeVita, a GNC student athlete in high school negotiated his identity, expression, and sexual orientation as an accomplished classical ballet dancer and all-conference…
Examining Loss: Postcritical Ethnography and the Pursuit of What Could Be Otherwise
In this article, we argue that loss often precedes critique in postcritical ethnographic work. We position this argument in relation to the moral and the political commitments that imbue postcritical ethnography, noting how a postcritical perspective invites researchers to theorize and imagine what could be otherwise. We ground our discussion in a 4-year ethnography we carried out with Burundians with refugee status living in southern Appalachia …
China Virus' and 'Kung-Flu: A Critical Race Case Study of Asian American Journalists' Experiences During Covid-19
The researchers designed a critical race case study to represent media coverage by and experiences of Asian American1 journalists during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. After analyzing data inductively, the researchers drew upon critical race theory scholarship to apply the theoretical concepts of race consciousness, whiteness as property, and the hegemony of racial hierarchy to analyze Asian American journalists' expe…
Evolutions in Critical and Postcritical Ethnography: Crafting Approaches
This book provides an overview of the evolutions of critical and postcritical ethnography and uses exemplar studies.
Evolutions in Critical and Postcritical Ethnography: Crafting Approaches
Critical Turns in Ethnography
“Take a Mental Break”: Examining the Coping Efforts of Black College Students Exposed to Police Killings
Given the repeated police killings of unarmed Black people and their increasing visibility because of recent technological advances, Black people are especially vulnerable to adverse mental health effects. However, little is known about how they attempt to cope with these incidents or how their efforts may affect their mental health. Informed by trauma theory and stress, appraisal, and coping theory, this study used semi-structured in-depth inter…
Looking Back to Look Forward: Exploring Crenshaw's Political, Structural, and Representational Intersectionality in Sport
Engaging with Kimberlé Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality, the authors (re)turn to its genesis in critical race theory (CRT) and specifically, its forms of structural intersectionality, political intersectionality, and representational intersectionality. Discussing each form in relation to contemporary issues in sport that Black women and women of Color navigate, they argue that Crenshaw's intersectionality provides additional compelling lay…
Black and Blue: An integrated conceptual framework for understanding the trauma and mental impacts of police violence exposure in Black communities
Because repeated incidents of police violence against unarmed Black people are increasingly visible, as a result of technological advances, there is growing need to understand their potentially traumatic mental health effects for other Black people. This narrative review provides an overview of critical race theory, the stress, appraisal, and coping theory, trauma theory, racial trauma theory, and emotional contagion theory to develop an integrat…
Am I Next: A qualitative study of Black college students' experiences of stress, trauma, and grief from exposures to police killings
There is little research that explores the experiences of Black people exposed to police killings of other unarmed Blacks, despite the fact these incidents repeatedly and disproportionately affect this population. While some quantitative studies have examined the impacts of police violence exposure on mental health in recent years, there remains a dearth of in-depth qualitative research exploring the processes through which chronic exposures to p…
Critical Race Methodologies
Critical Race scholars draw on multiple bodies of knowledge to analyze, understand, and critique the reproduction of social structures that abridge equal protections for all people in the United States. Originating in the critical legal tradition of the 1970s/1980s, Critical Race scholars invoke etic, and emic, perspectives in their shared commitment to racial and social justice. Within the field, Critical Race scholars have developed a set of me…
Postcritical Ethnography
The authors introduce postcritical ethnography, both as a historical epoch that followed the failures of and departures from critical ethnography and as a set of engagements in qualitative inquiry. Discussing critical turns toward emic approaches to research, interpretivism, and Critical Theory, the authors provide historical context for what became critical ethnography and the crisis of representation. They address the influence of postmodernism…
Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Ethnography (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)