A much-needed text that takes stock of issues of ethnicity and race in communication studies, this book presents an overview of the most cutting-edge research, theory, and methods in the subject and advocates for centering ethnicity and race in the communication studies discipline.
This handbook brings together a diverse group of both senior and up-and-coming scholars to offer original scholarship in race and ethnicity in communication studies, emphasizing various analytical perspectives including, but not limited to, global, transnational, diasporic, feminist, queer, trans, and disability approaches. While centering ethnicity and race, contributors also take an intersectional perspective in their approach to their topics and chapters. The book features examination of specific subfields, like Whiteness studies, Latina/o/x communication studies, Asian/Pacific American communication studies, African American communication and culture, and Middle East and North African communication studies.
The text is oriented to graduate students and researchers within communication studies as well as media studies, cultural studies, critical race and ethnic studies, American studies, sociology, and education, while still being accessible to upper-level undergraduate students.
Theme 1: Representations that Matter 1. Latina Representations and Media: Teenhood and Intersectionalizing subjectivities in the post-network era 2. Asian American Representation in Marvel Comics 3. Mixed Race Representation and Media: The Naomi Osaka Brand, Activism, and Visual Communication for Generation Z 4. Hemispheric Puerto Rican Representation in "Multicultural" Media: Interrogating the Problem with Sanitized Inclusion in the 2010 USPS Julia de Burgos Stamp 5. Latinx Representation and Horror: The Horror(s) of Mexicans, Or Illuminations of Early Cinematic Monsters, Horror, and Latino/a/xs 6. Dragging White Femininity: Race and Gender Inauthenticity on Instagram 7. Asian American Vernacular Print Circuits: (Re)narrating History, Identity, and Solidarity Theme 2: Racial, Queer, and Trans* Worldmaking 8. Trans Diasporic Critique: Un/Loving Justice and Kai Cheng Thom's Trans Politics 9. Queer Xicana Indigenity: Four Moments of Remember, Imperial Trauma and Performance 10. A Black Queer Critique: "Let's Set(te) the Scene" 11. Queer of Color Multiverses: Gathering the Edges with Chitra Ganesh 12. Queer(er) Pasture Critique: Re-imagining Spatiotemporal Futurities of Racialization in/through Boogie 13. Black Feminist Evangelical Rhetorics: "I Am...": Womanist Rhetoric and Queer, Theological Communicative Foundations for Exegesis and Racial Reconciliation 14. Race in Trans and Queer Migration: Arcoíris 17's Contesting of Colonial Legacies Theme 3: New Possibilities and Frontiers 15. Black Feminist Hashtaggin' as a Rhetorical Form of Care: "We Can't Stop, Won't Stop" Truthtelling and Worldmaking 16. Afrocentricity and Afrofuturism 2.0: Mapping African Futurity in a changing World Order 17. Race and the Rhetorical Canon: A Paradox of Assimilation 18. Bordering Spaces, Bordering Subjects: Space, Place, and the Production of Bare Life 19. Anti-Black violence & South Asian Normativities 20. The Racial State Revitalized: A Racialization Déjà Vu? in Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District 21. Intimate Reckonings with Whiteness 22. Race and ethnicity in Zimbabwe: Contemporary contradictions and colonial antecedents 23. Politics of Transdiasporic Identity: Regarding the Pain of "the Other" and Performing Home in Diaspora Theme 4: Theorizing Voices and Experiences 24. Theorizing Southern Strategies of Anti-Racism: Culturally Centering Social Change 25. Toward Theorizing about Black Women 26. Identity Politics: Blackness in the (Mass) Communication Classroom and Beyond 27. Black Women's Notes on Tourism and Fieldwork: An Autoethnographic Disruption of Stella as a Text 28. A Global Idea of Race: Greek Gypsies, Blackness 29. Racial and Ethnic Intersections: Ambiguous Bodies 30. Race, Language, and Transculturalism: I Have English 31. White Racist Women: Through the Looking Glass Theme 5: The Body and the Politics of "Health" 32. Palestine and Settler Colonialism: Understanding Mental Health 33. On Being Black and Indigenous in America: Addressing Race and Health Disparities and the Impacts of Historical Generational Oppression 34. Covid-19/Vaccine Misinformation in Nigeria: The Battle is the Lord's:" Social Media, Faith-Based Organizations, and Challenges 35. Racism and/as Ableism: The Rhetorical Syzygy of Exclusion Theme 6: Revisiting the Landscape of Communication Studies 36. Race and Media Studies 37. Race and Sports 38. Race and/in Communication Research: Obscuring, Othering, and the Possibilities of Disciplinary Transformation 39. Race and Interpersonal Communication 40. Race and Organizational Communication: Tired of Saying it 41. Whiteness in Intercultural Communication Research: A Review and Directions for Future Scholarship
