Description
Book SynopsisThis collection, edited by Daniel S. Strasser, was unearthed from the demand for more inclusive and expansive dialogues on intersectional identities, ethnicity, neuro-diversity, physical ability, religion, sexual orientation, class, and gender performance in academia. The autoethnographic and narrative accounts within Communication and Identity in the Classroom: Intersectional Perspectives of Critical Pedagogy offer personal, experiential perspectives on the power of identity to influence educators in classroom and mentoring spaces. The multiple perspectives offered here promote dialogue about how personal experience provides the ground upon which we build more dynamic relationships and communities. The contributors’ experiences offer examples for a more expansive understanding of privilege, oppression, and identity. These seeds for conversation nourish discourses that build new communicative bridges between educators and students as we prepare to face the next interaction, class, and challenges and opportunity for resilience. This collection invites educators to be critical of their bodies, of their politics, of their intersecting identities, and acknowledge in words and actions that our bodies are political. Throughout this collection the contributors expand upon theories and methods of critical communication scholarship, radical love, and intersectionality using their embodied pedagogical experiences to ground the scholarship.
Trade ReviewCommunication and Identity in the Classroom: Intersectional Perspectives of Critical Pedagogy is an important edited book that centralizes intersectional perspectives on communication education. It not only locates critical issues in differences such as race, gender, sexuality, queerness, class, and the body; but it also brings forth diverse sets of conceptual and methodological orientations to critical pedagogy. This book is meant to open up more space to (re)consider communication issues in the classroom more now than ever.
-- Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico
Table of ContentsPreface by Bernadette Marie Calafell
Introduction: Communication and Identity in the Classroom: Intersectional Perspectives of
Critical Pedagogy
Daniel S. Strasser
SECTION ONE: Autoethnographic Accounts of Critical, Intersectional Pedagogy
Chapter One
Finding Space and Place within the Ivory Tower: Conversations on Intersectionality, Voice and Silence
Tomeka M. Robinson and Jahnasia Booker
Chapter Two
You Are Not My Child, I Am Not Your Parent: A Case Against the Infantilization of Students
Meggie Mapes and Benny LeMaster
Chapter Three
Empath(olog)ic Pedagogy: An Autoethnography of Health, Class, and the Classroom
Brandi Lawless
Chapter Four
“Bad Hombre” in the Classroom: Pedagogical Politics of Performing “Brown Man” in a Conservative Time
Antonio De La Garza and Andrew R. Spieldenner
Chapter Five
What Difference Does it Make?: Navigating the Privileged Halls of Academia as a Queer Black Woman Professor
Elizabeth Whittington
Chapter Six
Teaching While Vulnerable: Connection through Shared Vulnerability as a Pedagogical Stepping Stone To Queer Consciousness
Richard G. Jones, Jr.
Chapter Seven
Queer-Femme-Pedagogy: Telling Our Tales // Confessing Our Truths
Bri Ozalas and Kathryn Hobson
Chapter Eight
Pedagogy, Passing and Privilege
Rachel Silverman
SECTION TWO: Personal Narratives and Reflections on Critical, Intersectional Pedagogy
Chapter Nine
Sawubona - We See, Value and Respect You: A Critical Pedagogical Invitation to Communicate
Eddah M. Mutua
Chapter Ten
Family Stories, Pedagogy, Inclusive Practices and Autohistoria
Sergio Fernando Juárez
Chapter Eleven
Unmasking the Hegemony of English: Exploring English Neo-Imperialism and the Internationalization of Whiteness
Sachiko Tankei-Aminian
Chapter Twelve
Managing Mental Health in the Classroom: A Narrative Reflection on Pedagogy
Andrea L. Meluch
Chapter 13
Navigating Intercultural Identities at a Crossroads of Mindfulness and Instruction
Aayushi Hingle
Chapter 14
Going the Extra Mile: Mentoring Black Undergraduate Students
Lance Kyle Bennett
Index
About the Contributors
