Andrea G Hunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea G Hunter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea G |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunter |
| SIGNATURE | HUNTER A G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9426-4116 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Dismantling the master's house: Epistemological tensions and revelatory interventions for reimagining a transformational family science
Using Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools as an epistemic guide, we propose two practice interventions for family science (FS) transformative praxes. The first, inspired by the thought of philosopher Charles Mills, challenges FS practitioners (research, practice, and policy) to explore differences in peripheral and positivist & post‐positivist (P&PP) ideologies responsible for differences in beliefs regarding the salience or non‐salience of power di…
Transformational family science: Praxis, possibility, and promise
We advance a transformational family science as an engaged practice that may serve social justice and an anti‐racist project. Our companion paper proposed epistemic revelatory interventions through which family science may re‐imagine itself. We highlight pillars of a transformational family science that (a) build with epistemological and paradigmatic stances of peripherals; (b) infuse an ethic of reflexivity, accountability, and responsibility in…
Past as Prologue: How History Becomes Psychologically Present
Social issues, especially when they implicate histories of injustices, often stay with us not only because they pose moral questions but also because of their consequences for individual psychologies and the relations between groups within societies. This special issue of the Journal of Social Issues focuses on different ways that social history and psychology—always co‐constructing each other—matter. Focused on major events and social movements …
We Made History: Collective Memory and the Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen
This qualitative investigation examines the collective constructions of the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen and men's perspectives of the impact of their military experiences on their postwar lives. African American men ( n = 93) who participated in the “Tuskegee Experiment” as pilots, ground crew, and other military personnel were surveyed. The emergent legacy focused on record of excellence and accomplishment in their individual performance and m…
Psychology, History, and Social Justice: Concluding Reflections
This article provides a concluding commentary for a thematic issue of the Journal of Social Issues (JSI) dealing with the intertwining of psychology, history, and social issues. First we show how the social issues addressed and the scholarly approach in this journal collection are consistent with the JSI tradition. Then we contend that the questions asked in more traditional areas of psychology and in examining the intersection of history and psy…
Racial Socialization of Biracial Youth: Maternal Messages and Approaches to Address Discrimination
We explored how mothers of biracial youth prepare their children to navigate diverse racial ecologies and experiences of racism and discrimination. A qualitative thematic analysis was used to identify racial socialization messages mothers used and emergent racial socialization approaches. Mothers of biracial youth engaged in the full range of racial socialization discussed in the literature, including cultural, minority, self‐development, egalita…
Race, Class, and Religious Differences in the Social Networks of Children and Their Parents
The study is a qualitative investigation of mothers' perspectives about and their role in negotiating and developing intergenerational closure across race, class, and religious differences and their management of children's diverse friendships. Black and White mothers ( n = 25) of third graders were interviewed about social networks, children's friendships, and closure relationships. Race, class, and faith were critical vantage points from which …
Parental Racial Socialization and the Academic Achievement of African American Children: A Cultural-Ecological Approach
Transforming Caregiving: African American Custodial Grandmothers and the Child Welfare System
Growing numbers of African American grandmothers are raising grandchildren under the auspices of the child welfare system; however, little is known about the manner in which child welfare policies and practices impact custodial grandparenting. Based on focus groups with African American grandmothers who are raising grandchildren as formal kinship caregivers, this study explored the ways in which the new formalized relationship between the child w…
Managing Children's Friendships Through Interparental Relationships: Roles of Ethnicity and Friendship Context
Twenty African American and European American mothers of fourth-grade students reflected on strategies for managing children's friendships maintained across a variety of contexts. Ethnicity differentially located families within specific social contexts that yielded children's friendships, then informed social processes as they unfolded within these contexts. Maternal knowledge concerning children's friendships developed as a function of the type…
Links between social network closure and child well-being: The organizing role of friendship context
Third grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children's friendships across multiple contexts, determine levels of social network closure for these friendships, and assess child well-being. Cluster analyses revealed distinct patterns in the contexts in which children's friendships were maintained. Closure was highest for children whose friendship clusters heavily repr…
Context and closure in children’s friendships: Prevalence and demographic variation
Third-grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children’s friendships across the multiple contexts of their lives and to determine the strength of parent-to-parent relationships for these friendships (social network closure). Hierarchical linear modeling procedures were used to evaluate links between friendship context and strength of closure relationships. Closure rel…
Loss, Survival, and Redemption: African American Male Youths’ Reflections on Life Without Fathers, Manhood, and Coming of Age
Using an interpretivist approach, this article explores young African American men's (n = 20) reflections on coming of age and the meanings of father loss. Based on focus groups, the authors found that it was through autobiographical narratives of loss, survival, and redemption that young men positioned themselves ideologically and constructed the type of man they wanted to become. These emergent narratives reflect the complex ways young men work…
The other breadwinners: The mobilization of secondary wage earners in early twentieth-century black families
This study examines black families' reliance on secondary wage earners in Atlanta, GA during the early twentieth century (1900 and 1936). In periods of economic prosperity and decline, two-parent black families routinely relied on the employment of mothers, children, and extended kin to supplement the family income. These other breadwinners had different positions within the black family economy, and families' reliance on them was affected by div…
Feminist Attitudes Among African American Women and Men
Research on the intersection of race and gender suggests that, for African Americans, racial inequality is more salient than gender inequality. However, theoretical perspectives on the multiplicative effects of status positions and 'outsider within' models suggest that minority group membership can be a catalyst for the development of feminist attitudes. This article examines three issues central to feminism: (1) recognition and critique of gende…
Counting on Grandmothers: Black Mothers' and Fathers' Reliance on Grandmothers for Parenting Support
This article examines Black young adult parents' reliance on grandmothers for parenting support. The sample of 487 parents, 18 to 34 years old, was drawn from the National Survey of Black Americans. Parents most often nominated grandmothers as the person they could count on for child care assistance and parental guidance. Mothers and fathers did not differ in their overall nominations of grandmothers. However, mothers were more likely than father…
Hidden Voices of Black Men: The Meaning, Structure, and Complexity of Manhood
Peer Reviewed
Making a Way: Strategies of Southern Urban African-American Families, 1900 and 1936
Diversity and Fluidity in Children's Living Arrangements: Family Transitions in an Urban Afro-American Community
Andrea G. Hunter, Margaret E. Ensminger, Diversity and Fluidity in Children's Living Arrangements: Family Transitions in an Urban Afro-American Community, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 2 (May, 1992), pp. 418-426
Constructing Gender: An Exploration of Afro-American Men's Conceptualization of Manhood
This article explores the meanings of manhood as articulated by Afro-American men (N = 32). Conceptualization and Q-sort methods are used to examine (1) men's construction of manhood and (2) men's ratings of the importance of selected attributes to being a man. Manhood emerged as a multidimensional construct with four major domains (self-determinism and accountability, family, pride, and spirituality and humanism) and 15 distinct clusters of idea…
Racial Socialization of Biracial Youth: Maternal Messages and Approaches to Address Discrimination
We explored how mothers of biracial youth prepare their children to navigate diverse racial ecologies and experiences of racism and discrimination. A qualitative thematic analysis was used to identify racial socialization messages mothers used and emergent racial socialization approaches. Mothers of biracial youth engaged in the full range of racial socialization discussed in the literature, including cultural, minority, self‐development, egalita…
Constructing Gender: An Exploration of Afro-American Men's Conceptualization of Manhood
This article explores the meanings of manhood as articulated by Afro-American men (N = 32). Conceptualization and Q-sort methods are used to examine (1) men's construction of manhood and (2) men's ratings of the importance of selected attributes to being a man. Manhood emerged as a multidimensional construct with four major domains (self-determinism and accountability, family, pride, and spirituality and humanism) and 15 distinct clusters of idea…
Feminist Attitudes Among African American Women and Men
Research on the intersection of race and gender suggests that, for African Americans, racial inequality is more salient than gender inequality. However, theoretical perspectives on the multiplicative effects of status positions and 'outsider within' models suggest that minority group membership can be a catalyst for the development of feminist attitudes. This article examines three issues central to feminism: (1) recognition and critique of gende…
Counting on Grandmothers: Black Mothers' and Fathers' Reliance on Grandmothers for Parenting Support
This article examines Black young adult parents' reliance on grandmothers for parenting support. The sample of 487 parents, 18 to 34 years old, was drawn from the National Survey of Black Americans. Parents most often nominated grandmothers as the person they could count on for child care assistance and parental guidance. Mothers and fathers did not differ in their overall nominations of grandmothers. However, mothers were more likely than father…
Parental Racial Socialization and the Academic Achievement of African American Children: A Cultural-Ecological Approach
Loss, Survival, and Redemption: African American Male Youths’ Reflections on Life Without Fathers, Manhood, and Coming of Age
Using an interpretivist approach, this article explores young African American men's (n = 20) reflections on coming of age and the meanings of father loss. Based on focus groups, the authors found that it was through autobiographical narratives of loss, survival, and redemption that young men positioned themselves ideologically and constructed the type of man they wanted to become. These emergent narratives reflect the complex ways young men work…
We Made History: Collective Memory and the Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen
This qualitative investigation examines the collective constructions of the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen and men's perspectives of the impact of their military experiences on their postwar lives. African American men ( n = 93) who participated in the “Tuskegee Experiment” as pilots, ground crew, and other military personnel were surveyed. The emergent legacy focused on record of excellence and accomplishment in their individual performance and m…
Race, Class, and Religious Differences in the Social Networks of Children and Their Parents
The study is a qualitative investigation of mothers' perspectives about and their role in negotiating and developing intergenerational closure across race, class, and religious differences and their management of children's diverse friendships. Black and White mothers ( n = 25) of third graders were interviewed about social networks, children's friendships, and closure relationships. Race, class, and faith were critical vantage points from which …
Diversity and Fluidity in Children's Living Arrangements: Family Transitions in an Urban Afro-American Community
Andrea G. Hunter, Margaret E. Ensminger, Diversity and Fluidity in Children's Living Arrangements: Family Transitions in an Urban Afro-American Community, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 2 (May, 1992), pp. 418-426
Transformational family science: Praxis, possibility, and promise
We advance a transformational family science as an engaged practice that may serve social justice and an anti‐racist project. Our companion paper proposed epistemic revelatory interventions through which family science may re‐imagine itself. We highlight pillars of a transformational family science that (a) build with epistemological and paradigmatic stances of peripherals; (b) infuse an ethic of reflexivity, accountability, and responsibility in…
Managing Children's Friendships Through Interparental Relationships: Roles of Ethnicity and Friendship Context
Twenty African American and European American mothers of fourth-grade students reflected on strategies for managing children's friendships maintained across a variety of contexts. Ethnicity differentially located families within specific social contexts that yielded children's friendships, then informed social processes as they unfolded within these contexts. Maternal knowledge concerning children's friendships developed as a function of the type…
Links between social network closure and child well-being: The organizing role of friendship context
Third grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children's friendships across multiple contexts, determine levels of social network closure for these friendships, and assess child well-being. Cluster analyses revealed distinct patterns in the contexts in which children's friendships were maintained. Closure was highest for children whose friendship clusters heavily repr…
Context and closure in children’s friendships: Prevalence and demographic variation
Third-grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children’s friendships across the multiple contexts of their lives and to determine the strength of parent-to-parent relationships for these friendships (social network closure). Hierarchical linear modeling procedures were used to evaluate links between friendship context and strength of closure relationships. Closure rel…
Past as Prologue: How History Becomes Psychologically Present
Social issues, especially when they implicate histories of injustices, often stay with us not only because they pose moral questions but also because of their consequences for individual psychologies and the relations between groups within societies. This special issue of the Journal of Social Issues focuses on different ways that social history and psychology—always co‐constructing each other—matter. Focused on major events and social movements …
Psychology, History, and Social Justice: Concluding Reflections
This article provides a concluding commentary for a thematic issue of the Journal of Social Issues (JSI) dealing with the intertwining of psychology, history, and social issues. First we show how the social issues addressed and the scholarly approach in this journal collection are consistent with the JSI tradition. Then we contend that the questions asked in more traditional areas of psychology and in examining the intersection of history and psy…
The other breadwinners: The mobilization of secondary wage earners in early twentieth-century black families
This study examines black families' reliance on secondary wage earners in Atlanta, GA during the early twentieth century (1900 and 1936). In periods of economic prosperity and decline, two-parent black families routinely relied on the employment of mothers, children, and extended kin to supplement the family income. These other breadwinners had different positions within the black family economy, and families' reliance on them was affected by div…
Making a Way: Strategies of Southern Urban African-American Families, 1900 and 1936
Dismantling the master's house: Epistemological tensions and revelatory interventions for reimagining a transformational family science
Using Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools as an epistemic guide, we propose two practice interventions for family science (FS) transformative praxes. The first, inspired by the thought of philosopher Charles Mills, challenges FS practitioners (research, practice, and policy) to explore differences in peripheral and positivist & post‐positivist (P&PP) ideologies responsible for differences in beliefs regarding the salience or non‐salience of power di…
Transforming Caregiving: African American Custodial Grandmothers and the Child Welfare System
Growing numbers of African American grandmothers are raising grandchildren under the auspices of the child welfare system; however, little is known about the manner in which child welfare policies and practices impact custodial grandparenting. Based on focus groups with African American grandmothers who are raising grandchildren as formal kinship caregivers, this study explored the ways in which the new formalized relationship between the child w…
Diversity and Fluidity in Children's Living Arrangements: Family Transitions in an Urban Afro-American Community
Andrea G. Hunter, Margaret E. Ensminger, Diversity and Fluidity in Children's Living Arrangements: Family Transitions in an Urban Afro-American Community, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 2 (May, 1992), pp. 418-426
Constructing Gender: An Exploration of Afro-American Men's Conceptualization of Manhood
This article explores the meanings of manhood as articulated by Afro-American men (N = 32). Conceptualization and Q-sort methods are used to examine (1) men's construction of manhood and (2) men's ratings of the importance of selected attributes to being a man. Manhood emerged as a multidimensional construct with four major domains (self-determinism and accountability, family, pride, and spirituality and humanism) and 15 distinct clusters of idea…
Making a Way: Strategies of Southern Urban African-American Families, 1900 and 1936
Hidden Voices of Black Men: The Meaning, Structure, and Complexity of Manhood
Peer Reviewed
Counting on Grandmothers: Black Mothers' and Fathers' Reliance on Grandmothers for Parenting Support
This article examines Black young adult parents' reliance on grandmothers for parenting support. The sample of 487 parents, 18 to 34 years old, was drawn from the National Survey of Black Americans. Parents most often nominated grandmothers as the person they could count on for child care assistance and parental guidance. Mothers and fathers did not differ in their overall nominations of grandmothers. However, mothers were more likely than father…
Feminist Attitudes Among African American Women and Men
Research on the intersection of race and gender suggests that, for African Americans, racial inequality is more salient than gender inequality. However, theoretical perspectives on the multiplicative effects of status positions and 'outsider within' models suggest that minority group membership can be a catalyst for the development of feminist attitudes. This article examines three issues central to feminism: (1) recognition and critique of gende…
The other breadwinners: The mobilization of secondary wage earners in early twentieth-century black families
This study examines black families' reliance on secondary wage earners in Atlanta, GA during the early twentieth century (1900 and 1936). In periods of economic prosperity and decline, two-parent black families routinely relied on the employment of mothers, children, and extended kin to supplement the family income. These other breadwinners had different positions within the black family economy, and families' reliance on them was affected by div…
Links between social network closure and child well-being: The organizing role of friendship context
Third grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children's friendships across multiple contexts, determine levels of social network closure for these friendships, and assess child well-being. Cluster analyses revealed distinct patterns in the contexts in which children's friendships were maintained. Closure was highest for children whose friendship clusters heavily repr…
Context and closure in children’s friendships: Prevalence and demographic variation
Third-grade children (N = 404) and their mothers completed questionnaires and participated in interviews designed to identify children’s friendships across the multiple contexts of their lives and to determine the strength of parent-to-parent relationships for these friendships (social network closure). Hierarchical linear modeling procedures were used to evaluate links between friendship context and strength of closure relationships. Closure rel…
Loss, Survival, and Redemption: African American Male Youths’ Reflections on Life Without Fathers, Manhood, and Coming of Age
Using an interpretivist approach, this article explores young African American men's (n = 20) reflections on coming of age and the meanings of father loss. Based on focus groups, the authors found that it was through autobiographical narratives of loss, survival, and redemption that young men positioned themselves ideologically and constructed the type of man they wanted to become. These emergent narratives reflect the complex ways young men work…
Managing Children's Friendships Through Interparental Relationships: Roles of Ethnicity and Friendship Context
Twenty African American and European American mothers of fourth-grade students reflected on strategies for managing children's friendships maintained across a variety of contexts. Ethnicity differentially located families within specific social contexts that yielded children's friendships, then informed social processes as they unfolded within these contexts. Maternal knowledge concerning children's friendships developed as a function of the type…
Transforming Caregiving: African American Custodial Grandmothers and the Child Welfare System
Growing numbers of African American grandmothers are raising grandchildren under the auspices of the child welfare system; however, little is known about the manner in which child welfare policies and practices impact custodial grandparenting. Based on focus groups with African American grandmothers who are raising grandchildren as formal kinship caregivers, this study explored the ways in which the new formalized relationship between the child w…
Parental Racial Socialization and the Academic Achievement of African American Children: A Cultural-Ecological Approach
Race, Class, and Religious Differences in the Social Networks of Children and Their Parents
The study is a qualitative investigation of mothers' perspectives about and their role in negotiating and developing intergenerational closure across race, class, and religious differences and their management of children's diverse friendships. Black and White mothers ( n = 25) of third graders were interviewed about social networks, children's friendships, and closure relationships. Race, class, and faith were critical vantage points from which …
Racial Socialization of Biracial Youth: Maternal Messages and Approaches to Address Discrimination
We explored how mothers of biracial youth prepare their children to navigate diverse racial ecologies and experiences of racism and discrimination. A qualitative thematic analysis was used to identify racial socialization messages mothers used and emergent racial socialization approaches. Mothers of biracial youth engaged in the full range of racial socialization discussed in the literature, including cultural, minority, self‐development, egalita…
Past as Prologue: How History Becomes Psychologically Present
Social issues, especially when they implicate histories of injustices, often stay with us not only because they pose moral questions but also because of their consequences for individual psychologies and the relations between groups within societies. This special issue of the Journal of Social Issues focuses on different ways that social history and psychology—always co‐constructing each other—matter. Focused on major events and social movements …
We Made History: Collective Memory and the Legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen
This qualitative investigation examines the collective constructions of the legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen and men's perspectives of the impact of their military experiences on their postwar lives. African American men ( n = 93) who participated in the “Tuskegee Experiment” as pilots, ground crew, and other military personnel were surveyed. The emergent legacy focused on record of excellence and accomplishment in their individual performance and m…
Psychology, History, and Social Justice: Concluding Reflections
This article provides a concluding commentary for a thematic issue of the Journal of Social Issues (JSI) dealing with the intertwining of psychology, history, and social issues. First we show how the social issues addressed and the scholarly approach in this journal collection are consistent with the JSI tradition. Then we contend that the questions asked in more traditional areas of psychology and in examining the intersection of history and psy…
Dismantling the master's house: Epistemological tensions and revelatory interventions for reimagining a transformational family science
Using Audre Lorde's The Master's Tools as an epistemic guide, we propose two practice interventions for family science (FS) transformative praxes. The first, inspired by the thought of philosopher Charles Mills, challenges FS practitioners (research, practice, and policy) to explore differences in peripheral and positivist & post‐positivist (P&PP) ideologies responsible for differences in beliefs regarding the salience or non‐salience of power di…
Transformational family science: Praxis, possibility, and promise
We advance a transformational family science as an engaged practice that may serve social justice and an anti‐racist project. Our companion paper proposed epistemic revelatory interventions through which family science may re‐imagine itself. We highlight pillars of a transformational family science that (a) build with epistemological and paradigmatic stances of peripherals; (b) infuse an ethic of reflexivity, accountability, and responsibility in…
Sociology (20 works) · Psychology (17 works) · Political science (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works)