De-Whitening Intersectionality

Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics

Bernadette Marie Calafell editor Shadee Abdi editor Dr Shinsuke Eguchi editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Lexington Books

Published:21st Dec '21

Should be back in stock very soon

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De-Whitening Intersectionality cover

De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics. Calling for a re-centering of difference by exploring the emergence and inception of intersectionality concepts, the coeditors and contributors distinguish between the uses of intersectionality that seem inclusive versus those that actually enact inclusion by demonstrating how to re-conceptualize intersectionality in ways that explicate, elucidate, and elaborate culture-specific and text-specific nuances of knowledge for women of color, queer/trans-people of color, and non-western people of color who have been marked as the Others. As a feminist of color tradition, intersectionality has been appropriated through increasing popularity in the discipline of communication, undermining efforts to critique power when researchers reduce the concept to a checklist of identity markers. This book underscores that in order to play well with and illustrate a nuanced understanding of intersectionality; scholars must be attentive to its origins and implications.

By bringing back the critical edge of this intellectual and political tradition, De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics is an important and powerful intervention in the communication discipline. This timely anthology sets a new agenda for future theorizing and research on intersectionality in communication and beyond. -- Gust A. Yep, San Francisco State University

ISBN: 9781498588249

Dimensions: 218mm x 155mm x 20mm

Weight: 535g

340 pages