The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication

Critical intercultural communication studies focuses on issues of power, context, socio–economic relations and historical/structural forces as these play out in culture and intercultural communication encounters, relationships, and contexts. Scholars in the field have imagined and envisioned what critical intercultural communication studies can be; however, The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication is the first resource to date that fully engages such imaginings. Because the theoretical and contextual range of critical intercultural communication studies is still developing and taking shape, this Handbook aims to furnish scholars with a consolidated resource of works that highlights all aspects of the field, its historical inception, logics, terms, and possibilities. This groundbreaking collection traces the historical steps and developments that enabled such a course of study while presenting new and vibrant possibilities of engaging culture and intercultural relations and contexts in a “critical” way. This handbook will help scholars revisit, assess, and reflect on the formation of critical intercultural communication studies and where it needs to go in terms of theorizing, knowledge production, and social justice engagement.

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xvii 1 Critical Intercultural Communication Studies: At a Crossroads 1 Rona Tamiko Halualani and Thomas K. Nakayama Part I Critical Junctures and Refl ections In Our Field: A Revisiting 17 2 Writing the Intellectual History of Intercultural Communication 21 Wendy Leeds–Hurwitz 3 Critical Reflections on Culture and Critical Intercultural Communication 34 Dreama G. Moon 4 Reflecting Upon “Enlarging Conceptual Boundaries: A Critique of Research in Intercultural Communication” 53 Alberto González 5 Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited 59 Judith N. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama 6 Reflections on “Problematizing ‘Nation’ in Intercultural Communication Research” 84 Kent A. Ono 7 Reflections on “Bridging Paradigms: How Not to Throw Out the Baby of Collective Representation with the Functionalist Bathwater in Critical Intercultural Communication” 98 S. Lily Mendoza 8 Revisiting the Borderlands of Critical Intercultural Communication 112 Leda Cooks 9 Expanding the Circumference of Intercultural Communication Study 130 William J. Starosta and Guo–Ming Chen Part II Critical Dimensions in Intercultural Communication Studies 147 10 Internationalizing Critical Race Communication Studies: Transnationality, Space, and Affect 149 Raka Shome 11 Re–imagining Intercultural Communication in the Context of Globalization 171 Kathryn Sorrells 12 Culture as Text and Culture as Theory: Asiacentricity and Its Raison D’être in Intercultural Communication Research 190 Yoshitaka Miike 13 Entering the Inter: Power Lines in Intercultural Communication 216 Aimee Carrillo Rowe 14 Speaking of Difference: Language, Inequality and Interculturality 227 Crispin Thurlow 15 Speaking Against the Hegemony of English: Problems, Ideologies, and Solutions 248 Yukio Tsuda 16 Coculturation: Toward A Critical Theoretical Framework of Cultural Adjustment 270 Melissa L. Curtin 17 Public Memories in the Shadow of the Other: Divided Memories and National Identity 286 Jolanta A. Drzewiecka 18 Critical Intercultural Communication, Remembrances of George Washington Williams, and the Rediscovery of Léopold II’s “Crimes Against Humanity” 311 Marouf Hasian Part III Critical Topics in Intercultural Communication Studies 333 19 Situating Gender in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 335 Lara Lengel and Scott C. Martin 20 Identity and Difference: Race and the Necessity of the Discriminating Subject 348 Ronald L. Jackson II and Jamie Moshin 21 Br(other) in the Classroom: Testimony, Reflection, and Cultural Negotiation 364 Bryant Keith Alexander 22 When Frankness Goes Funky: Afro–Proxemics Meets Western Polemics at the Border of the Suburb 382 Jim Perkinson 23 Iterative Hesitancies and Latinidad: The Reverberances of Raciality 400 Bernadette Marie Calafell and Shane T. Moreman 24 We Got Game: Race, Masculinity, and Civilization in Professional Team Sport 417 Lisa A. Flores, Karen Lee Ashcraft and Tracy Marafiote 25 It Really Isn’t About You: Whiteness and the Dangers of Thinking You Got It 446 John T. Warren 26 Critical Reflections on a Pedagogy of Ability 461 Deanna L. Fassett 27 The Scarlet Letter, Vigilantism, and the Politics of Sadism 472 Richard Morris 28 Authenticity and Identity in the Portable Homeland 483 Victoria Chen 29 Layers of Nikkei: Japanese Diaspora and World War II 495 Etsuko Kinefuchi 30 Placing South Asian Digital Diasporas in Second Life 517 Radhika Gajjala 31 “The Creed of the White Kid”: A Diss–apology 534 Melissa Steyn 32 A Critical Reflection on an Intercultural Communication Workshop: Mexicans and Taiwanese Working on the US–Mexico Border 549 Hsin–I Cheng 33 “Quit Whining and Tell Me About Your Experiences!”: (In)Tolerance, Pragmatism, and Muting in Intergroup Dialogue 565 Sara DeTurk 34 A Proposal for Concerted Collaboration between Critical Scholars of Intercultural and Organizational Communication 585 Brenda J. Allen Part IV Critical Visions of Intercultural Communication Studies 593 35 Conclusion: Envisioning the Pathway(s) of Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 595 Thomas K. Nakayama and Rona Tamiko Halualani Index 601

Thomas K. Nakayama is Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is founding editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and has published widely in the areas of critical race and critical intercultural communication, including Intercultural Communication in Contexts, Fourth Edition (2007), Experiencing Intercultural Communication, Third Edition (2007) and Human Communication in Society, Second Edition (2010). Rona Tamiko Halualani is Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication Studies at San Jose State University. Her research interests include the following: critical intercultural communication studies, intercultural contact, race/ethnicity; diversity, prejudice, identity and cultural politics, diasporic identity, and Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders. She is the author of In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics (2002).

"A fascinating read for those of us who are not familiar with this stream, as well as for those well–versed in the discipline. The contributions to the handbook represent a broad range of topics; they offer various theoretical perspectives and future orientations in critical intercultural communication."  ( The Delta Intercultural Academy , 1 August 2013)