Lexington Books
Pages: 228
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7391-8351-9 • Hardback • November 2013 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-0-7391-8352-6 • eBook • November 2013 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
J. Jacob Jenkins is an assistant professor of communication at California State University Channel Islands.
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Relevant Literature
Chapter 3: Research Context
Chapter 4: Research Methods
Chapter 5: Communicating Community
Chapter 6: Disciplining Discourses
Chapter 7: Traversing Tensions
Chapter 8: Defy(ning) Diversity
Chapter 9: Implementing Implications
Chapter 10: Conclusion
Overall the author was successful in detailing this four-year ethnographic study. A major strength of the book is the amount of relevant research literature used throughout the study. . . Thus, the book would serve as an excellent book in qualitative research and organizational communication research courses.
— Communication Research Trends
From the very start of this work, J. Jacob Jenkins addresses some of the key issues involved in diversity: what is really meant by the term, and what characterizes the ideally diverse community. Even as he evokes myriad details of the diverse community studied, Jenkins is relentlessly organized, making his points and findings easy for the reader to follow and avoiding losing the reader in mass data exploration. Writing in depth about a compelling case study of a community seeking to build and maintain diversity, Jenkins takes the reader through the triumphs and struggles the community encounters as it maintains diversity through communication.
— John C. Meyer, University of Southern Mississippi