Based on a two-year critical ethnography, "Performing Purity: Whiteness, Pedagogy, and the Reconstitution of Power demonstrates the potential of a performative conceptualization of whiteness--a way of seeing whiteness in production, in the process of reiteration. This book builds on prior studies by searching for the repetitions of whiteness in our daily communication. The move to the performative is an explicit detailing of whiteness in and through the repetitious acts that work to reconstitute whiteness as a communicative ideal. "Performing Purity creates a critical space of dialogue, shifting the conversation to how we make race, as a construct, matter.

As the only multi-paradigmatic collection of research in the field, this Handbook brings together a comprehensive range of essays to serve as a fully inclusive resource. Deanna L. Fassett and John T. Warren, along with two section editors and twenty-nine additional contributors, provide a balanced overview of various paradigms in the field-social scientific, interpretive, and critical.

Key Features Three sections, addressing overlapping issues in communication and instruction, collectively represent multiple paradigms. This allows the reader to experience the depth and nuance available in communications studies.Each perspective is granted its own foundational chapter to provide an orientation to the discipline. Each contributor sets the agenda for their approach, helping the reader identify where the field is headed and where future research might be beneficial.Besides reviews of extant literature, demonstrating where the field has been, this Handbook also includes chapters that share topical new findings.

SECTION I: Communication EducationAnn Darling, Section EditorSECTION II: Instructional CommunicationScott A. Myers, Section EditorSECTION III: Critical Communication Pedagogy John T. Warren and Deanna L. Fassett, Section Editors

This Handbook will benefit scholars, graduate students, and general readers-irrespective of method or disciplinary background-who are interested in the connections between communication and instruction.