Research Handbook on Communication and Prejudice

Edited by Elvis Nshom, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, California State University, US and Stephen Croucher, School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University, New Zealand

Contents

Preface 1
Elvis Nshom and Stephen Croucher

PART I COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE, MEDIA, AND PREJUDICE
1 Introduction: understanding prejudice and communication 10
Elvis Nshom
2 The relationship between language and bias 23
Katherine Anne Collins and Traci-lee Dawn Christianson
3 Media and prejudice 43
Sylvie Graf, Simona O’hová, and Mirjana Rupar
4 Prejudice and othering in social media: a systematic literature review 61
Shomaila Sadaf

PART II KEY THEORIES AND TERMS IN COMMUNICATION AND
PREJUDICE
5 Prejudicial nonaccommodative moves: the cycles of intergroup
communication experience 76
Howard Giles, Quinten Bernhold, and Dennis McCarty
6 Intergroup contact and intergroup dialogue: communicative pathways to
addressing prejudice and intergroup bias 90
Nick Joyce, Dakota Sandras, and Jordan Soliz
7 Ethnolinguistic vitality, multilingual communication and speakers of
contested languages 103
Justyna Olko
8 Communication and prejudice: integrated threat theory 138
Thao Nguyen
9 Realistic group conflict theory 149
Elvis Nshom

PART III METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES AND ADVANCES
10 Analyzing prejudice through qualitative research methods: a case study
approach 161
Angela Putman
11 “Was that (racial) prejudice, or was it just me?”: an autoethnographic
approach to deconstructing prejudice 176
Tina Harris

PART IV CURRENT U.S.-BASED CASES IN COMMUNICATION
AND PREJUDICE
12 Systemic inequity and #BlackLivesMatter 186
Jozie Nummi and Monica Williams
13 LGBTQ lives in the United States 203
Brian Harrison and Quinn Buhman
14 Prejudice towards refugees in the United States 222
Elvis Williams and Elvis Nshom
15 Instructional communication and prejudice 240
Kevin James and Stephanie Kelly
16 Prejudice and health communication in the United States 253
Lillie Williamson
17 Prejudice and ethnocentrism toward Asian Americans during the
COVID-19 pandemic 269
Stephen Croucher, Thao Nguyen, Doug Ashwell, Anthony Spencer, Tatiana
Permyakova, Mohan Dutta, and Oscar Gomez

PART V EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION AND
PREJUDICE IN NON-US CONTEXTS
18 Denigrated, delegitimized, and erased: prejudice against Scots in the UK 282
Audra Diers-Lawson
19 Migration to and from Latin America: understanding and negotiating
prejudices 300
Anthony Spencer and Paola Albarrán
20 Applying integrated threat theory to the Palestinian–Israeli conflict:
a qualitative study 319
Kelsea Jackson and Stephen Croucher
21 A cross-cultural analysis of ethnocentrism and intercultural
communication apprehension in India and the United States 335
Stephen Croucher
22 COVID-19 Prejudice toward Chinese immigrants in Turkey 349
Stephen Croucher, Nadirabegim Eskiçorapçı and Thao Nguyen
23 Perceived discrimination among anglophone Cameroonians: gender and
regional differences 358
Elvis Nshom, Immaculate Mkong, and Isidore Agha
24 Where injustice and inequality remain for one, equals partnership for
none: colonialism, prejudice and the Māori struggle for equality in
Aotearoa/New Zealand 367
Doug Ashwell and Bridget Raiha Bell
25 “Minding their own business, slogging hard, and busting nobody’s
chops”: the COVID-19 pandemic and the anti-Chinese sentiment in
Italy – an integrated threat theory perspective 381
Davide Girardelli, Stephen Croucher, and Thao Nguyen
26 Prejudice in a Portuguese context 396
João Caetano
27 Prejudice and the fear of immigrants in three Finnish cities: Helsinki,
Jyväskylä, and Joensuu – a comparative approach 411
Elvis Nshom
28 Ethnocentrism studies in Russia and a Russian ethnocentrism measure 423
Tatiana Permyakova and Ekaterina Balezina
29 Chinese Indonesians and the New Chinese Migrants in Indonesia 436
Tommy Yotes
30 Understanding stereotypes and integration of foreign residents in Japan 449
Tomomi Tomomune