Synopses & Reviews
Whiteness is often looked upon and equated with being American, but this book seeks to discover how other American voices and experiences have been and are excluded from the American legacy. It directly addresses the notion of self and human division in a cultural climate that has historically fostered the marginalization of multiple racial identities. This is an interdisciplinary work on understanding and promoting intercultural communication and will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of communication, multicultural studies, social psychology, and sociology.
Review
Jackson does an excellent job of providing a historical overview of issues of identity, race, ethnicity, and culture in several disciplines. He clearly identifies the issues and research questions as well as his answers to those questions. This work contributes to current approaches to identity research by tackling a challenging task in the use of triangulation, which is often called for in our research but seldom used.Communication Theory
Synopsis
Offers a new conceptual communication approach in defining the cultural self, which assists in gaining insight into the process and outcome of intercultural exchange.
Synopsis
Cultural identities are negotiated within the interaction of individuals and groups but the exchange is often more deleterious for marginalized groups than it is for whites. This book offers a new conceptual approach to defining the cultural self in order to gain insight into the process and outcome of intercultural interaction.
About the Author
RONALD L. JACKSON, II is Assistant Professor of Speech and Communication Theory at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Molefi Asante
Preface
Exploring the Need to Be
Overview of Identities Negotiated within Interaction
Origins: Foundations for the Discussion of Race in America
Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Identities
Two Theories of Communicated Identity
Research Design and Methodology
When "The Other" is White
Results and Synthesis
Bibliography
Subject Index
Author Index