Race(ing) Intercultural Communication : Racial Logics in a Colorblind Era

By collecting together scholarship that centralizes race and intercultural communication in order to interrogate the myths of colour-blindness and post-racialism, Race(ing) Intercultural Communication examines their manifestations in various discourses and mediums of communication. The contributions are at the forefront of theorizing about race, and its implications on intercultural communication, by examining (inter)national discourses, voices, and communities so as to envision alternate possibilities for co-existing socially. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.

Race(ing) Intercultural Communication signals a crucial intervention in the field, as well as in wider society, where social and political events are calling for new ways of making sense of race in the 21^st century. Contributors to this book work at multiple intersections, theoretically and methodologically, in order to highlight relational (im)possibilities for intercultural communication. Chapters underscore the continuing importance of studying race, and the diverse mechanisms that maintain racial logics both in the U. S. and globally. In the so-called ‘post-racial’ era in which we live, not only are disrupting notions of colour-blindness crucially important, but so too are imagining new ways of thinking through racial matters.

Ranging from discussions of new media, popular culture, and political discourse, to resistance literature, gay culture, and academia, contributors produce incisive analyses of the operations of race and white domination, including the myriad ways in which these discourses are reproduced and disrupted. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.