1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Ethnicity and Race in Communication

Edited By Bernadette Marie Calafell, Shinsuke Eguchi Copyright 2024
588 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

588 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

588 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Theme 1: Representations That Matter

1. Latina Representations and Media: Teenhood and Intersectionalizing Subjectivities in the Post-Network Era

Stephanie Perez and Angharad N. Valdivia

2. Asian American Representation in Marvel Comics

David C. Oh

3. Mixed Race Visual Communication: The Naomi Osaka Brand Meets Generation Z Activism

Jennifer McClearen and Leilani Nishime

4. Hemispheric Puerto Rican Representation in "Multicultural" Media: Interrogating the Problem with Sanitized Inclusion in the 2010 USPS Julia de Burgos Stamp

Sara Baugh-Harris

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

Roberto Avant-Mier and Bernadette Marie Calafell

6. Dragging White Femininity: Race and Gender Inauthenticity on Instagram

Raquel Moreira

7. Asian American Vernacular Print Circuits: (Re)narrating History, Identity, and Solidarity

Corinne Mitsuye Sugino

Theme 2: Racial, Queer, and Trans* Worldmaking

8. Trans Diasporic Critique: Un/Loving Justice and Kai Cheng Thom’s Trans Politics

V. Jo Hsu

9. Queer Xicana Indigenity: Four Moments of Remember, Imperial Trauma, and Performance

Aimee Carrillo Rowe

10. The Prancing J-Settes and Black Queer Feminist Worldmaking

Rico Self

11. Queer of Color Multiverses: Gathering the Edges with Chitra Ganesh

Ali Na

12. Queer(er) Pasture Critique: Reimagining Spatiotemporal Futurities of Racialization in/through Boogie

Cassidy D. Ellis and Shinsuke Eguchi

13. Black Feminist Evangelical Rhetorics: "I Am...": Womanist Rhetoric and Queer Theological Communicative Foundations for Exegesis and Racial Reconciliation

Kelsey W. Minnick

14. Race in Trans and Queer Migration: Arcoíris 17's Contesting of Colonial Legacies

Oscar Alfonso Mejía

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

Ashley R. Hall

16. Afrocentricity and Afrofuturism 2.0: Mapping African Futurity in a changing World Order

Reynaldo Anderson and Courtney Carr

17. Race and the Rhetorical Canon: A Paradox of Assimilation

Stacey K. Sowards and Paulami Banerjee

18. Bordering Spaces, Bordering Subjects: Space, Place, and the Production of Bare Life

Antonio Tomas De La Garza

19. Anti-Black Violence and South Asian Normativities

Santhosh Chandrashekar

20. The Racial State Revitalized: A Racialization Déjà Vu? in Ho v. San Francisco Unified School District

Rona Tamiko Halualani

21. Intimate Reckonings with Whiteness

Ashley Noel Mack and Bryan J. McCann

22. Race and Ethnicity in Zimbabwe: Contemporary Contradictions and Colonial Antecedents

Cleophas Taurai Muneri

23. Politics of Transdiasporic Identity: Regarding the Pain of "the Other" and Performing Home in Diaspora

Serap Erincin

Theme 4: Theorizing Voices and Experiences

24. Theorizing Southern Strategies of Anti-Racism: Culturally Centering Social Change

Mohan J. Dutta

25. Toward Theorizing about Black Women

Jasmine T. Austin and Marnel Niles Goins

26. Identity Politics: Blackness in the (Mass) Communication Classroom and Beyond

Tina M. Harris and Kyle Stanley

27. Black Women’s Notes on Tourism and Fieldwork: An Autoethnographic Disruption of Stella as a Text

Nicole Files-Thompson and Trejha J. Whitfield

28. A Global Idea of Race: Greek Gypsies, Blackness

Charles Athanasopoulos

29. Racial and Ethnic Intersections: Ambiguous Bodies

Ahmet Atay

30. Race, Language, and Transculturalism: I Have English

Devika Chawla

31. White Racist Women: Through the Looking Glass

Dawn Marie D. McIntosh

Theme 5: The Body and the Politics of "Health"

32. Palestine and Settler Colonialism: Understanding Mental Health

Walid A. Afifi and Haneen Shafeeq Ghabra

33. On Being Black and Indigenous in America: Addressing Race and Health Disparities and the Impacts of Historical Generational Oppression

Angela Cooke-Jackson, Benson G. Cooke, and Ruby Ben

34. "The Battle Is the Lord's": Social Media, Faith-Based Organizations, and Challenges with COVID-19/Vaccine Misinformation in Nigeria

Tomide Oloruntobi

35. Racism and/as Ableism and the Rhetorical Syzygy of Exclusion

Christina V. Cedillo

Theme 6: Revisiting the Landscape of Communication Studies

36. Race and Media Studies

Robert Mejia

37. "Race and Sports"

Thomas P. Oates

38. Race and/in Communication Research: Obscuring, Othering, and the Possibilities of Disciplinary Transformation

Gust A. Yep, Shanti Charan, and Nereyda I. Valdez

39. Race and Interpersonal Communication

Shardé M. Davis and Mackensie Minniear

40. Race and Organizational Communication: Tired of Saying It

Diane Susan Grimes and Cerise L. Glenn

41. Whiteness in Intercultural Communication Research: A Review and Directions for Future Scholarship 

Thomas K. Nakayama, Judith N. Martin, and Robert J. Razzante

Biography

Bernadette Marie Calafell is Chair and Professor in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at Gonzaga University, USA.

Shinsuke Eguchi is Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico, USA.

"An outstanding and much-needed excavation of race and ethnicity in communication studies."

Lisa M. Corrigan, University of Arkansas, USA