Whiteness The Communication of Social Identity [Hardcover]

This collection of outstanding essays employs a range of approaches to understanding `whiteness' as a communication phenomenon. Contributors use analyses of media representations, social scientific data results, poststructuralist theoretical discussions and postcolonial critiques of whiteness. The editors conclude by summarizing not only specific claims about whiteness identity, but about how multimethodological approaches to communication offer new ways of considering research.This collection of outstanding essays employs a range of approaches to understanding `whiteness' as a communication phenomenon. Contributors use analyses of media representations, social scientific data results, poststructuralist theoretical discussions and postcolonial critiques of whiteness. The editors conclude by summarizing not only specific claims about whiteness identity, but about how multimethodological approaches to communication offer new ways of considering research.

". . .encourages the reader to consider different definitions of whiteness. . .a worthwhile addition to the literature on communication." 

Introduction - Thomas K Nakayama and Judith N Martin
Whiteness as the Communication of Social Identity
Reflections on Critical White(ness) Studies - Parker C Johnson
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF WHITENESS
Whiteness and Beyond - Philip C Wander, Judith Martin and Thomas Nakayama
Sociohistorical Foundations of Whiteness and Contemporary Challenges
What Do White People Want to Be Called? A Study of Self-Labels for White Americans - Judith N Martin et al
White Anti-Racist Rhetoric as <i>Apologia</i> - Debian Marty
Wendell Berry's <i>The Hidden Wound</i>
<i>We Celebrate 100 years</i> - Christina W Stage
An `Indigenous' Analysis of the Metaphors l³£