ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

The State of Ethnicity and Race in Communication

part Theme 1|92 pages

Representations That Matter

chapter 1|14 pages

Latina Representations and Media

Teenhood and Intersectionalizing Subjectivities in the Post-Network Era

chapter 3|13 pages

Mixed Race Visual Communication

The Naomi Osaka Brand Meets Generation Z Activism

chapter 4|15 pages

Hemispheric Puerto Rican Representation in “Multicultural” Media

Interrogating the Problem with Sanitized Inclusion in the 2010 USPS Julia de Burgos Stamp

chapter 5|13 pages

Latinx Representation and Horror

The Horror(s) of Mexicans: Or, Illuminations of Early Cinematic Monsters, Horror, and Latino/a/xs

chapter 6|9 pages

Dragging White Femininity

Race and Gender Inauthenticity on Instagram

chapter 7|13 pages

Asian American Vernacular Print Circuits

(Re)narrating History, Identity, and Solidarity

part Theme 2|90 pages

Racial, Queer, and Trans* Worldmaking

chapter 8|13 pages

Trans Diasporic Critique

Un/Loving Justice and Kai Cheng Thom's Trans Politics

chapter 9|11 pages

Queer Xicana Indigeneity

Four Moments of Remember, Imperial Trauma, and Performance

chapter 11|12 pages

Queer of Color Multiverses

Gathering the Edges with Chitra Ganesh

chapter 12|12 pages

Queer(er) Pasture Critique

Reimagining Spatiotemporal Futurities of Racialization in/through Boogie

chapter 13|12 pages

Black Feminist Evangelical Rhetorics

“I Am …”: Womanist Rhetoric and Queer Theological Communicative Foundations for Exegesis and Racial Reconciliation

chapter 14|14 pages

Race in Trans and Queer Migration

Arcoíris 17's Contesting of Colonial Legacies

part Theme 3|107 pages

New Possibilities and Frontiers

chapter 15|14 pages

Black Feminist Hashtaggin' as a Rhetorical Form of Care

“We Can't Stop, Won't Stop” Truthtelling and Worldmaking

chapter 16|7 pages

Afrocentricity and Afrofuturism 2.0

Mapping African Futurity in a Changing World Order

chapter 17|11 pages

Race and the Rhetorical Canon

A Paradox of Assimilation

chapter 18|12 pages

Bordering Spaces, Bordering Subjects

Space, Place, and the Production of Bare Life

chapter 20|13 pages

The Racial State Revitalized

A Racialization Déjà Vu? in Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District

chapter 22|11 pages

Race and Ethnicity in Zimbabwe

Contemporary Contradictions and Colonial Antecedents

chapter 23|14 pages

Politics of Transdiasporic Identity

Regarding the Pain of “the Other” and Performing Home in Diaspora

part Theme 4|100 pages

Theorizing Voices and Experiences

chapter 24|14 pages

Theorizing Southern Strategies of Anti-Racism

Culturally Centering Social Change

chapter 26|12 pages

Identity Politics

Blackness in the (Mass) Communication Classroom and Beyond

chapter 27|15 pages

Black Women's Notes on Tourism and Fieldwork

An Autoethnographic Disruption of Stella as a Text

chapter 28|12 pages

A Global Idea of Race

Greek Gypsies, Blackness

chapter 29|12 pages

Racial and Ethnic Intersections

Ambiguous Bodies

chapter 30|11 pages

Race, Language, and Transculturalism

I Have English

chapter 31|11 pages

White Racist Women

Through the Looking Glass

part Theme 5|51 pages

The Body and the Politics of “Health”

chapter 32|11 pages

Palestine and Settler Colonialism

Understanding Mental Health

chapter 33|12 pages

On Being Black and Indigenous in America

Addressing Race and Health Disparities and the Impacts of Historical Generational Oppression

chapter 34|14 pages

“The Battle Is the Lord's”

Social Media, Faith-Based Organizations, and Challenges with COVID-19/Vaccine Misinformation in Nigeria

part Theme 6|84 pages

Revisiting the Landscape of Communication Studies

chapter 36|12 pages

Race and Media Studies

chapter 37|13 pages

“Race and Sports”

chapter 38|16 pages

Race and/in Communication Research

Obscuring, Othering, and the Possibilities of Disciplinary Transformation

chapter 40|13 pages

Race and Organizational Communication

Tired of Saying It

chapter 41|14 pages

Whiteness in Intercultural Communication Research

A Review and Directions for Future Scholarship