Race(ing) Intercultural Communication

Dreama G. Moon is a professor in the Communication Department at California State University, San Marcos, California, USA. Within a human rights framework, she studies the varied communicative processes by which relations of domination are constructed, negotiated, reproduced, and resisted, with special attention to race and white supremacy. Michelle A. Holling is an associate professor in the Communication Department at California State University, San Marcos, California, USA. From a critical rhetorical lens, she advances the study of Chican@ rhetoric, and examines the ways that racial-ethnic individuals rhetorically challenge reigning ideologies, systems, or representations that contribute to their continued marginalization.

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