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--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