Synopses & Reviews
This groundbreaking volume explores how family communication influences the perennial and controversial topic of race. In assembling this collection, editors Thomas J. Socha and Rhunette C. Diggs argue that the hope for managing America's troubles with race lies not only with communicating about race at public meetings, in school, and in the media, but also--and more fundamentally--with families communicating constructively about race at home.
African-American and European-American family communication researchers come together in this volume to investigate such topics as how Black families communicate to manage the issue of racism; how Black parent-child communication is used to manage the derogation of Black children; the role of television in family communication about race; the similarities and differences between and among communication in Black, White, and biracial couples and families; and how family communication education can contribute to a brighter future for all. With the aim of developing a clearer understanding of the role that family communication plays in society's move toward a multicultural world, this volume provides a crucial examination of how families struggle with issues of ethnic cultural diversity.
Synopsis
This volume examines how family communication affects our understanding of race and race relations. For scholars studying diversity issues, intercultural communication, family communication, and related areas.
Table of Contents
At the crossroads of communication, race, and family : toward understanding black, white, and biracial family communication / Thomas J. Socha and Rhunette C. Diggs -- African-American childrearing : the context of a hot stove / Jack L. Daniel and Jerlean E. Daniel -- African-American parent-child communication about racial derogation / Isabel B. Ferguson -- Race and electronic media in the lives of four families : an ethnographic study / Sheri L. Parks -- White children's talk about race and culture : family communication and intercultural socialization / Roberta A. Davilla -- African-American and European-American adolescents' perceptions of self-esteem as influenced by parent and peer communication and support environments / Rhunette C. Diggs -- African-American, European-American, and biracial couples' meaning for and experiences in marriage / Marianne Dainton -- Communicating about "race" in interracial families / Mark P. Orbe -- Cooking gumbo--examining cultural dialogue about family : a black-white narrativization of lived experience in Southern Louisiana / Bryant K. Alexander and H. Paul LeBlanc III -- Toward improving life at the crossroads : family communication education and multicultural competence / Thomas J. Socha and Jennifer Beigle -- Epilogue : Illuminating and evoking issues of race and family communication / Kathleen Galvin.