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Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
engages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine
the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as
interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume
critically, yet creatively, interrogates the notion of identity as
socially constructed, yet interconnected and shaped by cultural
associations, expanding on the idea that we as individuals live in
an identity matrix-our self-concept, experiences, and
interpretations originate or are developed from the culture in
which we are embedded. The shaping of an individual's identity,
communication, and worldview can be read, shaped, and understood
through life, art, popular culture, mass media, and cross-cultural
interactions, among other things. The aptness of this work lies in
its ability to provide a meaningful and creative space to analyze
identity and identity politics, highlighting the complexities of
identity formation in the twenty-first century.
With the emergence of popular culture phenomena, such as reality
television, blogging, and social networking sites, it is important
to examine the representation of Black women and the potential
implications of those images, messages, and roles. Black Women and
Popular Culture: The Conversation Continues provides such a
comprehensive analysis. Using an array of theoretical frameworks
and methodologies, this anthology features cutting edge research
from several scholars interested in the relationship among media,
society, perceptions, and Black women. The uniqueness of this book
is that it serves as a compilation of hot topics such as ABC s
Scandal, Beyonce s Visual Album, and Oprah s Instagram page. Other
themes explored are rooted in reality television, film, and hip
hop, as well as issues of gender politics, domestic violence, and
colorism. The discussion also extends to the presentation and
inclusion of Black women in advertising, print, and digital media."
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary
American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit
series Grey's Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private
Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, and The Catch.
Rhimes's work is attentive to identity politics, "post-" identity
politics, power, and representation, addressing innumerable
societal issues. Rhimes intentionally addresses these issues with
diverse characters and story lines that center, for example, on
interracial friendships and relationships, LGBTIQ relationships and
parenting, the impact of disability on familial and work dynamics,
and complex representations of womanhood. This volume serves as a
means to theorize Rhimes's contributions and influence by inspiring
provocative conversations about television as a deeply politicized
institution and exploring how Rhimes fits into the implications of
twenty-first century television.
This book honors the advocacy of Dr. Wangari Maathai, acclaimed
environmentalist and the first African woman to receive the Nobel
Prize for Peace. Dr. Maathai was a gifted orator who crafted
messages that imagined new possibilities for human agency and
social justice and who inspired action to protect our natural
habitats. This collection explores the various strategies Maathai
employed in her speeches to create memorable images and arguments
for audiences in Kenya and around the world. Specifically, authors
examine Maathai's use of storytelling, her creative use of metaphor
and local cultural knowledge, and her use of sharp social-political
analysis. Authors approach Maathai's rhetoric from both African and
Western ways of knowing.
Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology
that explores the persona and speech-making of the country's first
African American first lady. The result of these thought-provoking
essays is an interdisciplinary text that explores the First Lady
from a rhetorical and cultural point of view. Authors analyze her
Democratic National Convention speeches, her brand as First Lady,
her communication from her latest trip to Africa, her agenda
rhetoric in Let's Move! and Reach Higher, and her coming out as a
Black feminist intellectual when she spoke at Maya Angelou's
memorial service. Readers will recognize Michelle Obama as a rhetor
of our times-a woman who influences America at the intersections of
gender, race, and class and who is representative of what women are
today.
Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation
engages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine
the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as
interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume
critically, yet creatively, interrogates the notion of identity as
socially constructed, yet interconnected and shaped by cultural
associations, expanding on the idea that we as individuals live in
an identity matrix-our self-concept, experiences, and
interpretations originate or are developed from the culture in
which we are embedded. The shaping of an individual's identity,
communication, and worldview can be read, shaped, and understood
through life, art, popular culture, mass media, and cross-cultural
interactions, among other things. The aptness of this work lies in
its ability to provide a meaningful and creative space to analyze
identity and identity politics, highlighting the complexities of
identity formation in the twenty-first century.
This book critically analyzes the portrayals of Black women in
current reality television. Audiences are presented with a
multitude of images of Black women fighting, arguing, and cursing
at one another in this manufactured world of reality television.
This perpetuation of negative, insidious racial and gender
stereotypes influences how the U.S. views Black women. This
stereotyping disrupts the process in which people are able to
appreciate cultural and gender difference. Instead of celebrating
the diverse symbols and meaning making that accompanies Black
women's discourse and identities, reality television scripts an
artificial or plastic image of Black women that reinforces extant
stereotypes. This collection's contributors seek to uncover
examples in reality television shows where instantiations of Black
women's gendered, racial, and cultural difference is signified and
made sinister.
With the emergence of popular culture phenomena such as reality
television, blogging, and social networking sites, it is important
to examine the representation of Black women and the potential
implications of those images, messages, and roles. Black Women and
Popular Culture: The Conversation Continues provides such a
comprehensive analysis. Using an array of theoretical frameworks
and methodologies, this collection features cutting edge research
from scholars interested in the relationship among media, society,
perceptions, and Black women. The uniqueness of this book is that
it serves as a compilation of "hot topics" including ABC's Scandal,
Beyonce's Visual Album, and Oprah's Instagram page. Other themes
have roots in reality television, film, and hip hop, as well as
issues of gender politics, domestic violence, and colorism. The
discussion also extends to the presentation and inclusion of Black
women in advertising, print, and digital media.
Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor is an edited anthology
that explores the persona and speech-making of the country's first
African American first lady. The result of these thought-provoking
essays is an interdisciplinary text that explores the First Lady
from a rhetorical and cultural point of view. Authors analyze her
Democratic National Convention speeches, her brand as First Lady,
her communication from her latest trip to Africa, her agenda
rhetoric in Let's Move! and Reach Higher, and her coming out as a
Black feminist intellectual when she spoke at Maya Angelou's
memorial service. Readers will recognize Michelle Obama as a rhetor
of our times-a woman who influences America at the intersections of
gender, race, and class and who is representative of what women are
today.
The concept of identity has steadily emerged in importance in the
field of intercultural communication, especially over the last two
decades. In a transnational world marked by complex connectivity as
well as enduring differences and power inequities, it is imperative
to understand and continuously theorize how we perceive the self in
relation to the cultural other. Such understandings play a central
role in how we negotiate relationships, build alliances, promote
peace, and strive for social justice across cultural differences in
various contexts. Identity Research in Intercultural Communication,
edited by Nilanjana Bardhan and Mark P. Orbe, is unique in scope
because it brings together a vast range of positions on identity
scholarship under one umbrella. It tracks the state of identity
research in the field and includes cutting-edge theoretical essays
(some supported by empirical data), and queries what kinds of
theoretical, methodological, praxiological and pedagogical
boundaries researchers should be pushing in the future. This
collection's primary and qualitative focus is on more recent
concepts related to identity that have emerged in scholarship such
as power, privilege, intersectionality, critical selfhood,
hybridity, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, queer theory, globalization
and transnationalism, immigration, gendered and sexual politics,
self-reflexivity, positionality, agency, ethics, dialogue and
dialectics, and more. The essays are critical/interpretive,
postmodern, postcolonial and performative in perspective, and they
strike a balance between U.S. and transnational views on identity.
This volume is an essential text for scholars, educators, students,
and intercultural consultants and trainers.
The concept of identity has steadily emerged in importance in the
field of intercultural communication, especially over the last two
decades. In a transnational world marked by complex connectivity as
well as enduring differences and power inequities, it is imperative
to understand and continuously theorize how we perceive the self in
relation to the cultural other. Such understandings play a central
role in how we negotiate relationships, build alliances, promote
peace, and strive for social justice across cultural differences in
various contexts. Identity Research in Intercultural Communication,
edited by Nilanjana Bardhan and Mark P. Orbe, is unique in scope
because it brings together a vast range of positions on identity
scholarship under one umbrella. It tracks the state of identity
research in the field and includes cutting-edge theoretical essays
(some supported by empirical data), and queries what kinds of
theoretical, methodological, praxiological and pedagogical
boundaries researchers should be pushing in the future. This
collection s primary and qualitative focus is on more recent
concepts related to identity that have emerged in scholarship such
as power, privilege, intersectionality, critical selfhood,
hybridity, diaspora, cosmopolitanism, queer theory, globalization
and transnationalism, immigration, gendered and sexual politics,
self-reflexivity, positionality, agency, ethics, dialogue and
dialectics, and more. The essays are critical/interpretive,
postmodern, postcolonial and performative in perspective, and they
strike a balance between U.S. and transnational views on identity.
This volume is an essential text for scholars, educators, students,
and intercultural consultants and trainers."
Shonda Rhimes is one of the most powerful players in contemporary
American network television. Beginning with her break-out hit
series Grey's Anatomy, she has successfully debuted Private
Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, and The Catch.
Rhimes's work is attentive to identity politics, "post-" identity
politics, power, and representation, addressing innumerable
societal issues. Rhimes intentionally addresses these issues with
diverse characters and story lines that center, for example, on
interracial friendships and relationships, LGBTIQ relationships and
parenting, the impact of disability on familial and work dynamics,
and complex representations of womanhood. This volume serves as a
means to theorize Rhimes's contributions and influence by inspiring
provocative conversations about television as a deeply politicized
institution and exploring how Rhimes fits into the implications of
twenty-first century television.
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