Intercultural Alliances

Mary Jane Collier (Ph.D., University of Southern California, 1982) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Human Communication Studies, School of Communication, at the University of Denver. Her research interests focus on such cultural identities and discourses across multiple contexts. Her work appears in such journals as: Communication Monographs, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Communication Quarterly, and Howard Journal of Communication, and in various scholarly books and texts.

Intercultural Alliances, Volume 25 of The International and Intercultural Communication Annual, reflects the struggle to comprehend our international communities and improve the ways in which we communicate and negotiate across cultures. Carefully organized and edited by Mary Jane Collier, this accessible volume defines intercultural alliances and demonstrates their potential through examples of effective and ineffective alliances. A group of diverse and distinguished contributors presents an array of approaches to intercultural alliances, analyzing relationships between groups and individuals; institutionally based relationships that are constrained and enabled by structures, ideologies, and histories; and relationships as situated discourse.

1. Negotiating Intercultural Alliance Relationships: Toward Transformation - Mary Jane Collier2. Embodied Negotiation: Commodification and Cultural Representation in the U.S. Southwest - Kathryn Sorrells3. Bridge Inscriptions: Transracial Feminist Alliances, Possibilities, and Foreclosures - Aimee M. Carrillo Rowe4. Deconstructing Whiteness Ideology as a Set of Rhetorical Fantasy Themes: Implications for Interracial Alliance Building in the United States - Sean Tierney and Ronald L. Jackson II5. The Two Nations Talk: An Analysis of Rapprochement and Alienation in Two South African National Radio Talk Shows - Melissa E. Steyn6. The (In)visible Whiteness of Being: Stories of Selves in Sojourn - Leda Cooks and Elizabeth Fullon7. Interrogating Identities: Composing Other Cyberspaces - Radhika Gajjala8. Collective Memory, Media Representations, and Barriers to Intercultural Dialogue - Jolanta A. Drzewiecka9. Connecting Hawaiians: The Politics of Authenticity in the Hawaiian Diaspora - Rona Tamiko Halualani10. Bridging Theory and Cultural Politics: Revisiting the Indigenization-Poststructuralism Debates in Filipino and Filipino American Struggles for Identity - S. Lily Mendoza11. Intercultural Alliances: A Cyberdialogue Among Scholars/Practitioners - Brenda J. Allen, Benjamin J. Broome, Trisha S. Jones, Victoria Chen, and Mary Jane CollierAuthor IndexSubject IndexAbout the Editors, About the Contributors