Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Fong, Mary; Chuang, Rueyling

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This intercultural communication text reader brings together the many dimensions of ethnic and cultural identity and shows how they are communicated in everyday life. Introducing and applying key concepts, theories, and approaches_from empirical to ethnographic_the chapters look at the experiences of African Americans, Asians, Asian Americans, Latino/as, and Native Americans, as well as many cultural groups. The authors also explore issues such as gender, race, class, spirituality, alternative lifestyles, and inter- and intraethnic identity. The focus of analysis ranges from movies and photo albums to beauty salons and Deadhead gatherings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881874872
• Artikelnr.: 75143276

Autorenporträt

Mary Fong is associate professor of communication studies at California State University, San Bernardino. Rueyling Chuang is assistant professor of communication studies at California State University, San Bernardino.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface
Part 2 Part I Introduction to Ethnic and Cultural Identity
Chapter 3 1 Identity and the Speech Community
Chapter 4 2 Multiple Dimensions of Identity
Chapter 5 3 Ethnic and Cultural Identity: Distinguishing Features
Chapter 7 4 Theoretical Perspectives: Fluidity and Complexity of Cultural
and Ethnic Identity
Part 8 Part II Artifacts and Cultural Identity
Chapter 8 5 Approaches to Cultural Identity: Personal Notes from an
Autoethnographical Journey
Chapter 9 6 Grandma's Photo Album: Clothing as Symbolic Representations of
Identity
Chapter 11 7 She Speaks to Us, for Us, and of Us: Our Lady of Guadalupe as
a Semiotic Site of Struggle and Identity
Chapter 12 9 Intercultural Weddings and Simultaneous Display of Multiple
Identities
Chapter 12 8 Memory, Cinema, and the Reconstitution of Cultural Identities
in the Asian Indian Diaspora
Part 13 Part III Language, Terms, and Identity
Chapter 15 11 Cultural and Intercultural Speech Uses and Meanings of the
Term Nigga
Chapter 15 10 Pahiwatig: The Role of 'Ambiguity' in Filipino American
Communication Patterns
Chapter 16 12 Lesbian History and Politics of Identities
Chapter 17 13 The Chicken Haulers and the High Liners: CB Talk among
Interstate Truckers
Part 18 Part IV Cultural Communities and Social Identities
Chapter 20 14 Tighten Me Up: Reflecting and Maintaining Ethnic Identity
through Daily Interactions in an African American-Owned Beauty Salon
Chapter 21 15 Communicating a Latina Identity: Becoming Different, Doing
Difference, and Being Different
Chapter 22 16 Communicating Deadhead Identity: Exploring Identity from a
Cultural Communication Perspective
Chapter 23 18 Building a Shared Future Across the Divide: Identity and
Conflict in Cyprus
Chapter 23 17 I Want You to Talk for Me: An Ethnography of Communication of
the Osage Indian
Part 24 Part V Negotiating Cultural Identities and the Sense of Belonging
Chapter 26 19 'Where I Come From is Where I Want to Be': Communicating
Franco American Ethnicity
Chapter 27 20 Negotiating Cultural Identity: Strategies for Belonging
Chapter 28 21 Negotiating Cultural Identity in the Classroom
Chapter 29 22 'Perpetual Foreigner': In Search of Asian Americans' Identity
and Otherness
Part 30 Part VI Autoethnographies: Developing and Transforming Ethnic and
Cultural Identities
Chapter 32 23 Personal Journey: My Struggle between Cambodian and Chinese
Identities
Chapter 33 24 A Little Bit Black-But Not All the Way
Part 35 Index