1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of Ethnicity and Race in Communication
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
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
