1st Edition
Family Communication and Cultural Transformation (Re)Awakening Legacies of Equality, Social Justice, Freedom, and Hope
Building on their past work in race and family communication, Rhunette C. Diggs and Thomas J. Socha gather in this volume contemporary theory and research concerning ways that families use communication to transform inherited cultural legacies for the better (Communication 3.0).
The book expands the field of communication’s understanding of the life-long impact that family communication has on the managing diverse and clashing cultural relationships, identities, meanings, and communication practices. It spotlights the economically disenfranchised alongside the economically secure, the systematically oppressed next to beneficiaries of Whiteness, and those actually or metaphorically killed and or threatened by violence and hateful systems outside of home. Together, the contributions address omissions of diverse family contexts in family communication research and reconsider qualitative and quantitative approaches that bring respect and equality to the participant-researcher relationship.
This book is suitable as a supplementary text for courses in family communication, family studies, race and ethnicity in communication, and intergroup communication.
Chapter 1. A Better Way: Family Communication 3.0
Rhunette C. Diggs and Thomas J. Socha
Chapter 2. Family Communication (Re)Awakening Indigenous Resilience, Wellness, and Transcendence
Catherine E. McKinley and Jenn Lilly
Chapter 3. Unsettling Narrative Inheritance in Multicultural Family: Race, Class and Wealth in Family Stories of Property
Carlos G. Alemán and Melissa W. Alemán
Chapter 4. QAnon’s Ideology of Hate: As a Catalyst for Negative Transformation in Families and Close Relationships
Michael Waltman
Chapter 5. Guess Who Came to Dinner (and Stayed): Multiracial Romance and Families in Public and Private Spheres
Sheri Parks
Chapter 6. Resilience, Transitions, and Migration: Family Communication Toward a More Hopeful Future
Gary Beck, Danielle Jackson, Amy Makze-Fawcett, and Kayla Blansett Peters
Chapter 7. Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Understanding Family Histories and Narratives
Megan Cardwell, Jordan Soliz, and Jody Koenig Kellas
Chapter 8. Unexpected Financial Crises: Family Communication, Financial Planning, Ethnic/Racial Financial Practices and Transformative Financial Security
Roberta Davilla and A. Frank Thompson
Chapter 9. Breaking Free: Black, White, Bi-racial Women Respond to Memories of Family Race Legacies and Pass on Anti-Racism and Self-Family Care
Rhunette C. Diggs, Angela Hurd, Lois Ann Sellers, Colleen Cunningham, and Brigitte Christmon
Chapter 10 Healing from Trauma: Analyzing Letters When a Loved One is Incarcerated
Abiola Lawal and Yvette Harris
Chapter 11. A Brief Report: A Black Woman’s Life Shines the Light on Black Males and Family Communication
Rhunette Diggs
Chapter 12. Family Communication 3.0: Smartphones, Transformation, and Families in the US and China
Thomas J. Socha
Index
Biography
Rhunette C. Diggs is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at Johnson C. Smith University and an Adjunct Instructor at Rowan Cabarrus Community College, USA.
Thomas J. Socha is Professor of Communication at Old Dominion University, USA.
"Global futurity depends upon fully functioning families that utilize communication in ways that counter oppression and forge relations of justice within and beyond the family. This text conceptualizes, critiques, and curates modes of family communication and the appropriate methods for studying them. It challenges the field of communication to listen to families and learn from the marginalized."
Toni C. King, Denison University, USA.
