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Informationen zum Autor Ronald L. Jackson II (Ph. D., Howard University) is Associate Professor of Culture and Communication Theory in the Department of Communication Arts & Sciences at the Pennsylvania State University. He is author of The Negotiation of Cultural Identity (Praeger Press), Think About It! (Iuniverse.com), African American Communication: Identity and Culture (with Michael Hecht and Sidney Ribeau; Erlbaum Publishers). Forthcoming are five books entitled: African American Rhetorics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (with Elaine Richardson; Southern Illinois University Press); Scripting the Black Masculine Body in Popular Media: Identity, Discourse and Racial Politics in Popular Media (SUNY Press), Essential Readings in African American Communication Studies and Understanding African American Rhetoric (with Elaine Richardson). Dr. Jackson’s theory work includes the development of two paradigms coined “cultural contracts theory” and "black masculine identity theory." Klappentext In this compelling anthology, editor Ronald L. Jackson II explores constitutive aspects of African American communication behaviors as they relate to how African Americans define themselves culturally. Readers benefit from a plethora of research on African Americans related to almost every area of communication inquiry, including theory and identity; language, performance, and rhetoric; interpersonal relationships; gendered contexts; organizational and instructional contexts; and mass mediated contexts. Endowing the field with an intellectual legacy of issues, challenges, needs, and paradigms, African American Communication and Identities is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in Communication Studies and African American Studies courses. This volume is also an excellent reader for advanced courses in intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication, race relations, and interethnic communication. Zusammenfassung Contains essays concerning communicative aspects of African American identities. This book explains the disciplinary dimensions of African American communication literature: communication theory and identity; language and rhetoric; relational contexts; gendered contexts; organizational and instructional contexts; and! mass mediated contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis SECTION 1. THEORETIC APPROACHES TO AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNICATION AND IDENTITIES Ch 1. How I Got Over: Communication Dynamics in the Black Community - Jack L. Daniel and Geneva Smitherman Ch 2. The Afrocentric Idea - Molefi Kete Asante Ch 3. Complicity: The Theory of Negative Difference - Mark Lawrence McPhail Ch 4. Black Kinesics: Some Nonverbal Communication Patterns in Black Culture - Kenneth R. Johnson Ch 5. Improvisation as a Performance Strategy for African-based Theatre - Joni L. Jones SECTION 2. AFRICAN AMERICAN RHETORIC AND LANGUAGE Ch 6. A Dilemma of Black Communication Scholars: The Challenge of Finding New Rhetorical Tools - Deborah F. Atwater Ch 7. African American Ethos and Hermeneutical Rhetoric: An exploration of Alain Locke¿s The New Negro - Eric King Watts Ch 8. Playing the Dozens: Folklore as Strategies for Living - Thurmon Garner Ch 9. Black Street Speech: Its History, Structure, and Survival - John Baugh SECTION 3. AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNICATION IN RELATIONAL CONTEXTS Ch 10. An Afro-American Perspective on Interethnic Communication - Michael L. Hecht, Sidney Ribeau, and J. K. Alberts Ch 11. Interracial Dating: The Implications of Race for Initiating a Romantic Relationship - Tina M. Harris, Pamela Kalbfleisch Ch 12. The Changing Influence of Interpersonal Perceptions on Marital Well-being Among Black and White Couples - Linda K. Acitelli. Elizabeth Douvan, and Joseph Veroff Ch 13. Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord": Participation in African Ame...
