Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
PART I • HISTORIES AND APPLICATIONS OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY AS CRITICAL
SOCIAL RESEARCH
Chapter 1. Autoethnography: Introduction and Overview
Focus Your Reading
Histories of Autoethnography
Defined Functions of Autoethnography Applied as Critical Social
Research
Concluding Thoughts
Group Activity
Individual Activity
Sites for Students to Consider
Chapter 2. Mining and Priming Critical Social Theory for
Autoethnography
Focus Your Reading
What Is Theory?
What Is Social Theory?
What Is Critical Social Theory?
Emergent Critical Social Theorizing in Autoethnography
Guidelines for Infusing Theory into Autoethnography
Concluding Thoughts
Individual Activity
Individual and Two-Person Group Activity
Sites for Students to Consider
PART II • DOING AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: FROM BRAINSTORMING TO GUIDING
PROCESS
Chapter 3. First Guiding Process: Problematizing What You Know for
New-Self Insight
Focus Your Reading
Theoretical Foundation
Designing Autoethnography: Problematizing Data Collection and
Analysis Strategies
Deciding to Do Autoethnography: Problematizing a Linear Approach to
Self-Exploration
Directing Autoethnography: Problematizing Uniformed
Applications
Problematizing Ethics and Institutional Review Board Approval
Concluding Thoughts
Individual Activity
Individual and Group Activity
Sites for Students to Consider
Chapter 4. Second Guiding Process: Legitimizing Autoethnography
With Three Approaches
Focus Your Reading
Theoretical Foundations of Legitimizing
Reflexivity
Three Approaches to Legitimizing Autoethnography
Concluding Thoughts
Group Activity
Individual Activity
Sites for Students to Consider
Chapter 5. Third Guiding Process: Synthesizing New-Self Insights
With MICA
Focus Your Reading
What Is Qualitative Meta-Synthesis?
What Is Meta-Autoethnography?
Introducing MICA
Sample Application of the MICA Method
Synthesis as Translation: A Reciprocal Analogy
Concluding Thoughts
Group Activity
Individual Activity
Sites for Students to Consider
PART III • THE FUTURE OF AUTOETHNOGRAPHY: A PRISM OF
POSSIBILITY
Chapter 6. The Possibility of Autoethnography as Critically
Reflexive Action Research
Focus Your Reading
The Origins and Elements of CRAR
Selection Process for Autoethnography Literature to Consider as
CRAR
Finding Autoethnographies Demonstrating CRAR
Applying the CRAR Checklist/Rubric to Laubscher and Powell
Applying the CRAR Checklist/Rubric to Hughes
Concluding Thoughts: Toward Communicative Competence and
Communicative Praxis
Concluding Thoughts
Group Activity
Individual Activity
Sites for Students to Consider
Chapter 7. Anticipating the Future of Autoethnography as Critical
Social Research
Focus Your Reading
Growth and Creativity, Yet Sustained Skepticism and Criticism
Taking Healthy Risks: Growth in Autoethnographic Dissertations
Addressing Gaps in Autoethnography for the Future of the Genre
Publishing Autoethnography: Journals and Academic Publishers
Toward an Evolving Online Reading List for Autoethnography
Appendixes
A. Autoethnography Data Representation: An Example
B. Sample Undergraduate Mini-Autoethnography Student Work
C. Sample Mini-Autoethnography Midterm Assignment— Undergraduate
Level
D. Sample Syllabus for an Autoethnography Course—Graduate Level
Glossary
References
Index
Sherick Hughes, PhD, is a Full Professor in the School of Education
at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. In
addition to numerous publications in professional journals, he is
the co-author of Autoethnography: Process, Product and Possibility
for Critical Social Research (2020 Book Award, national
Society of Professors of Education), Black Hands in the
Biscuits Not in the Classrooms: Unveiling hope in a struggle for
Brown’s promise (2007 AESA Critics’ Choice Book Award, and
co-author of The Evolving Significance of Race: Living,
Learning, and Teaching (2014 AESA Critics’ Choice Book
Award). For more than 20 years, he has been investigating and
addressing equity issues at the intersection of theory, policy, and
practice. He has applied a variety of research methods that inform
international dialogues on how inequitable social structures are
developed, reproduced, and resisted; including the processes of
learning and unlearning intergroup biases. He has taught courses in
research methodology, equity, urban education, and intercultural
education to both undergraduate and graduate students. He is
recognized as one of the pre-eminent scholars of autoethnography
methods, critical race studies and black education, and social
context of schooling in urban and rural settings. Currently, he is
a consultant and lecturer on trends in educational research,
autoethnography, structural racism, and anti-racist education. His
work was recognized by the American Educational Research
Association (i.e., 2016 Distinguished Scholar Award; 2013
Division-G Early Career Award), and the Harvard Family Involvement
Network of Educators. His work is used widely (for example, to
inform an educational equity argument before the Supreme Court of
North Carolina; and to inform popular culture Netflix series, “The
Patriot Act” hosted by Hasan Minaj). He holds a doctorate in
Education from UNC-Chapel Hill, a master’s degree in Communication
Studies from Wake Forest University, a master’s degree in Public
Administration from UNC at Chapel Hill, and a bachelor’s degree in
Communication Studies from UNC at Wilmington.
To learn more about Autoethnography: Process, Product, and
Possibility for Critical Social Research, click here:
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/autoethnography/book241765 or
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To learn more about Sherick Hughes, his related SAGE book video,
click here:
https://methods.sagepub.com/video/sherick-hughes-discusses-autoethnography
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