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Book SynopsisThis outstanding new resource traces the significant historical developments in intercultural communication, helps scholars reflect on the formation of critical intercultural communication studies and posits new directions for the field in terms of theorizing, knowledge production, and social justice engagement.
Trade Review"A fascinating read for those of us who are not familiar with this stream, as well as for those well-versed in the discipline. The contributions to the handbook represent a broad range of topics; they offer various theoretical perspectives and future orientations in critical intercultural communication." (The Delta Intercultural Academy, 1 August 2013)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Critical Intercultural Communication Studies: At a Crossroads 1
Rona Tamiko Halualani and Thomas K. Nakayama
Part I Critical Junctures and Refl ections In Our Field: A Revisiting 17
2 Writing the Intellectual History of Intercultural Communication 21
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
3 Critical Reflections on Culture and Critical Intercultural Communication 34
Dreama G. Moon
4 Reflecting Upon “Enlarging Conceptual Boundaries: A Critique of Research in Intercultural Communication” 53
Alberto González
5 Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited 59
Judith N. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama
6 Reflections on “Problematizing ‘Nation’ in Intercultural Communication Research” 84
Kent A. Ono
7 Reflections on “Bridging Paradigms: How Not to Throw Out the Baby of Collective Representation with the Functionalist Bathwater in Critical Intercultural Communication” 98
S. Lily Mendoza
8 Revisiting the Borderlands of Critical Intercultural Communication 112
Leda Cooks
9 Expanding the Circumference of Intercultural Communication Study 130
William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen
Part II Critical Dimensions in Intercultural Communication Studies 147
10 Internationalizing Critical Race Communication Studies: Transnationality, Space, and Affect 149
Raka Shome
11 Re-imagining Intercultural Communication in the Context of Globalization 171
Kathryn Sorrells
12 Culture as Text and Culture as Theory: Asiacentricity and Its Raison D’être in Intercultural Communication Research 190
Yoshitaka Miike
13 Entering the Inter: Power Lines in Intercultural Communication 216
Aimee Carrillo Rowe
14 Speaking of Difference: Language, Inequality and Interculturality 227
Crispin Thurlow
15 Speaking Against the Hegemony of English: Problems, Ideologies, and Solutions 248
Yukio Tsuda
16 Coculturation: Toward A Critical Theoretical Framework of Cultural Adjustment 270
Melissa L. Curtin
17 Public Memories in the Shadow of the Other: Divided Memories and National Identity 286
Jolanta A. Drzewiecka
18 Critical Intercultural Communication, Remembrances of George Washington Williams, and the Rediscovery of Léopold II’s “Crimes Against Humanity” 311
Marouf Hasian
Part III Critical Topics in Intercultural Communication Studies 333
19 Situating Gender in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 335
Lara Lengel and Scott C. Martin
20 Identity and Difference: Race and the Necessity of the Discriminating Subject 348
Ronald L. Jackson II and Jamie Moshin
21 Br(other) in the Classroom: Testimony, Reflection, and Cultural Negotiation 364
Bryant Keith Alexander
22 When Frankness Goes Funky: Afro-Proxemics Meets Western Polemics at the Border of the Suburb 382
Jim Perkinson
23 Iterative Hesitancies and Latinidad: The Reverberances of Raciality 400
Bernadette Marie Calafell and Shane T. Moreman
24 We Got Game: Race, Masculinity, and Civilization in Professional Team Sport 417
Lisa A. Flores, Karen Lee Ashcraft and Tracy Marafi ote
25 It Really Isn’t About You: Whiteness and the Dangers of Thinking You Got It 446
John T. Warren
26 Critical Refl ections on a Pedagogy of Ability 461
Deanna L. Fassett
27 The Scarlet Letter, Vigilantism, and the Politics of Sadism 47
Richard Morris
28 Authenticity and Identity in the Portable Homeland 483
Victoria Chen
29 Layers of Nikkei: Japanese Diaspora and World War II 495
Etsuko Kinefuchi
30 Placing South Asian Digital Diasporas in Second Life 517
Radhika Gajjala
31 “The Creed of the White Kid”: A Diss-apology 534
Melissa Steyn
32 A Critical Refl ection on an Intercultural Communication Workshop: Mexicans and Taiwanese Working on the US-Mexico Border 549
Hsin-I Cheng
33 “Quit Whining and Tell Me About Your Experiences!”: (In)Tolerance, Pragmatism, and Muting in Intergroup Dialogue 565
Sara DeTurk
34 A Proposal for Concerted Collaboration between Critical Scholars of Intercultural and Organizational Communication 585
Brenda J. Allen
Part IV Critical Visions of Intercultural Communication Studies 593
35 Conclusion: Envisioning the Pathway(s) of Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 595
Thomas K. Nakayama and Rona Tamiko Halualani
Index 601
