Notes from the talking drum : exploring black communication and critical memory in intercultural communication contexts / Mark C. Hopson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hopson, Mark C., 1967-

Series:

Hampton Press communication series. Communication, globalization and cultural identity

The Hampton Press communication series : communication, globalization and cultural identity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Communication.

African Americans.

African Americans--Race identity.

Intercultural communication--United States.

Intercultural communication.

Communication and culture.

United States.

Communication and culture--United States.

African Americans in mass media.

Physical Description:

xvi, 110 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, [2011]

Contents:

Preface

Conceptualizing the talking drum. Situating black communication as intercultural experience

The iterativity of racism

Consciousness

Was Wright wrong? critical memory as sociopolitical context

Critical memory and the quest to become the first Black U.S. President

African-centeredness, intercultural communication, and critical memory. Constructing African-centered theory

Strengths and criticism of African-centered frameworks

Overview of intercultural communication

Power and privilege

Critical memory as means and method for discovery

The Black gaze. Gazing at whiteness

Blackness as visible-invisible

Whiteness and representations of terror and abuse

Voice. Naming ourselves

A rhetoric of affirmation

Voice and a rhetoric of possibility

Space. Space and the color-line

Interpreting experiences and moving toward ethnorelativism

Voice, gaze, space, and why it matters. Conclusion : from understanding to action.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781612890043

1612890040

9781612890050

1612890059

OCLC:

692084831