ABSTRACT
What is African American Communication?1 Perhaps the answer to this question is best illustrated by sociolinguist Richard Wright, who routinely asks his class the following rhetorical question: “If communication can be defined as the universe of forms, processes, and structures that govern how we relate to the world, then aren’t there forms, processes, and structures that are particular to African Americans?” Indeed, there is a universe that facilitates how African Americans relate to the world, and it is refereed by African American cultural personhood.
