Race(ing) Intercultural Communication

This collection centralizes race and intercultural communication to interrogate the myths of colour-blindness and post-racialism. It examines their manifestations in various discourses and mediums of communication. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.

Introduction - A Politic of Disruption: Race(ing) Intercultural Communication 1. The Rhetorics of Racial Power: Enforcing Colorblindness in Post-Apartheid Scholarship on Race 2. Queer Intercultural Relationality: An Autoethnography of Asian-Black (Dis)Connections in White Gay America 3. The Construction of Brownness: Latino/a and South Asian Bloggers' Responses to SB 1070 4. Resisting Whiteness: Mexican American Studies and Rhetorical Struggles for Visibility 5. Our Foreign President Barack Obama: The Racial Logics of Birther Discourses 6. New Media, Old Racisms: Twitter, Miss America, and Cultural Logics of Race 7. (Net)roots of Belonging: Contemporary Discourses of (In)valuability and Post-Racial Citizenship in the United States 8. Problematic Representations of Strategic Whiteness and "Post-racial" Pedagogy: A Critical Intercultural Reading of "The Help" 9. "My Family Isn't Racist-However....": Multiracial/Multicultural Obama-ism as an Ideological Barrier to Teaching Intercultural Communication Conclusion - Continuing a Politic of Disruption: Race(ing) Intercultural Communication