| Whiteness: The Communication of Social Identity Contributor(s): Nakayama, Thomas K. (Author), Martin, Judith N. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0761908625 ISBN-13: 9780761908623 Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc OUR PRICE: $207.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 1998 Annotation: Whiteness is a collection of outstanding essays that employs a range of approaches to understanding whiteness a communication phenomenon. Contributors use analyses of media representations, social scientific data, poststructuralist theoretical discussions, and post-colonial critiques of whiteness. Included as well are discussions of some of the ways whiteness is enacted through commemorations, white antiracist rhetoric, pedagogy, and personal narratives that highlight the cultural politics of whiteness. Thomas K. Nakayama and Judith N. Martin conclude with specific claims out white identity and about the ways multi-methodological approaches to communication offer new insights into research. Both timely and intriguing, this collection of articles will further our understanding of intercultural communication. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.803 |
| LCCN: 98019674 |
| Physical Information: 0.98" H x 5.76" W x 9.78" (1.23 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection of outstanding essays employs a range of approaches to understanding whiteness′ as a communication phenomenon. Contributors use analyses of media representations, social scientific data results, poststructuralist theoretical discussions and postcolonial critiques of whiteness. The editors conclude by summarizing not only specific claims about whiteness identity, but about how multimethodological approaches to communication offer new ways of considering research. |
