Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Critical Intercultural Communication Studies: At a Crossroads 1Rona Tamiko Halualani and Thomas K. Nakayama
Part I Critical Junctures and Refl ections In Our Field: A Revisiting 17
2 Writing the Intellectual History of Intercultural Communication 21Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz
3 Critical Reflections on Culture and Critical Intercultural Communication 34Dreama G. Moon
4 Reflecting Upon “Enlarging Conceptual Boundaries: A Critique of Research in Intercultural Communication” 53Alberto González
5 Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited 59Judith N. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama
6 Reflections on “Problematizing ‘Nation’ in Intercultural Communication Research” 84Kent A. Ono
7 Reflections on “Bridging Paradigms: How Not to Throw Out the Baby of Collective Representation with the Functionalist Bathwater in Critical Intercultural Communication” 98S. Lily Mendoza
8 Revisiting the Borderlands of Critical Intercultural Communication 112Leda Cooks
9 Expanding the Circumference of Intercultural Communication Study 130William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming Chen
Part II Critical Dimensions in Intercultural Communication Studies 147
10 Internationalizing Critical Race Communication Studies: Transnationality, Space, and Affect 149Raka Shome
11 Re-imagining Intercultural Communication in the Context of Globalization 171Kathryn Sorrells
12 Culture as Text and Culture as Theory: Asiacentricity and Its Raison D’être in Intercultural Communication Research 190Yoshitaka Miike
13 Entering the Inter: Power Lines in Intercultural Communication 216Aimee Carrillo Rowe
14 Speaking of Difference: Language, Inequality and Interculturality 227Crispin Thurlow
15 Speaking Against the Hegemony of English: Problems, Ideologies, and Solutions 248Yukio Tsuda
16 Coculturation: Toward A Critical Theoretical Framework of Cultural Adjustment 270Melissa L. Curtin
17 Public Memories in the Shadow of the Other: Divided Memories and National Identity 286Jolanta A. Drzewiecka
18 Critical Intercultural Communication, Remembrances of George Washington Williams, and the Rediscovery of Léopold II’s “Crimes Against Humanity” 311Marouf Hasian
Part III Critical Topics in Intercultural Communication Studies 333
19 Situating Gender in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 335Lara Lengel and Scott C. Martin
20 Identity and Difference: Race and the Necessity of the Discriminating Subject 348Ronald L. Jackson II and Jamie Moshin
21 Br(other) in the Classroom: Testimony, Reflection, and Cultural Negotiation 364Bryant Keith Alexander
22 When Frankness Goes Funky: Afro-Proxemics Meets Western Polemics at the Border of the Suburb 382Jim Perkinson
23 Iterative Hesitancies and Latinidad: The Reverberances of Raciality 400Bernadette Marie Calafell and Shane T. Moreman
24 We Got Game: Race, Masculinity, and Civilization in Professional Team Sport 417Lisa A. Flores, Karen Lee Ashcraft and Tracy Marafi ote
25 It Really Isn’t About You: Whiteness and the Dangers of Thinking You Got It 446John T. Warren
26 Critical Refl ections on a Pedagogy of Ability 461Deanna L. Fassett
27 The Scarlet Letter, Vigilantism, and the Politics of Sadism 47Richard Morris
28 Authenticity and Identity in the Portable Homeland 483Victoria Chen
29 Layers of Nikkei: Japanese Diaspora and World War II 495Etsuko Kinefuchi
30 Placing South Asian Digital Diasporas in Second Life 517Radhika Gajjala
31 “The Creed of the White Kid”: A Diss-apology 534Melissa Steyn
32 A Critical Refl ection on an Intercultural Communication Workshop: Mexicans and Taiwanese Working on the US-Mexico Border 549Hsin-I Cheng
33 “Quit Whining and Tell Me About Your Experiences!”: (In)Tolerance, Pragmatism, and Muting in Intergroup Dialogue 565Sara DeTurk
34 A Proposal for Concerted Collaboration between Critical Scholars of Intercultural and Organizational Communication 585Brenda J. Allen
Part IV Critical Visions of Intercultural Communication Studies 593
35 Conclusion: Envisioning the Pathway(s) of Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 595Thomas K. Nakayama and Rona Tamiko Halualani
Index 601