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De-Whitening Intersectionality

Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics

Edited by Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi; Shadee Abdi and Bernadette Marie Calafell - Foreword by Ashley Noel Mack - Contributions by Shadee Abdi; Haneen Alghabra; Shahd Alshammari; Sara Baugh-Harris; Chris Brown; Bernadette Marie Calafell; Santhosh Chandrashekar; Yea-Wen Chen; Dr. Andy Kai-chun Chuang; Jaelyn deMaria; Zhao Ding; Aisha Durham; Dr. Shinsuke Eguchi; Michelle A. Holling; Amber Johnson; Lore/tta LeMaster; Dawn Marie McIntosh; Raquel Moreira; Miranda Dottie Olzman; Pavithra Prasad; Anjana Raghavan; Kamela Rasmussen; Justin J. Rudnick and Sachi Sekimoto

De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics. Calling for a re-centering of difference by exploring the emergence and inception of intersectionality concepts, the coeditors and contributors distinguish between the uses of intersectionality that seem inclusive versus those that actually enact inclusion by demonstrating how to re-conceptualize intersectionality in ways that explicate, elucidate, and elaborate culture-specific and text-specific nuances of knowledge for women of color, queer/trans-people of color, and non-western people of color who have been marked as the Others. As a feminist of color tradition, intersectionality has been appropriated through increasing popularity in the discipline of communication, undermining efforts to critique power when researchers reduce the concept to a checklist of identity markers. This book underscores that in order to play well with and illustrate a nuanced understanding of intersectionality; scholars must be attentive to its origins and implications.

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Pages: 340 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅛

978-1-4985-8822-5 • Hardback • July 2020 • $140.00 • (£108.00)

978-1-4985-8824-9 • Paperback • December 2021 • $48.99 • (£38.00)

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Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Social Science / Minority Studies, Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations

De-Whitening Intersectionality

Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics

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De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics. Calling for a re-centering of difference by exploring the emergence and inception of intersectionality concepts, the coeditors and contributors distinguish between the uses of intersectionality that seem inclusive versus those that actually enact inclusion by demonstrating how to re-conceptualize intersectionality in ways that explicate, elucidate, and elaborate culture-specific and text-specific nuances of knowledge for women of color, queer/trans-people of color, and non-western people of color who have been marked as the Others. As a feminist of color tradition, intersectionality has been appropriated through increasing popularity in the discipline of communication, undermining efforts to critique power when researchers reduce the concept to a checklist of identity markers. This book underscores that in order to play well with and illustrate a nuanced understanding of intersectionality; scholars must be attentive to its origins and implications.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 340 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅛

978-1-4985-8822-5 • Hardback • July 2020 • $140.00 • (£108.00)

978-1-4985-8824-9 • Paperback • December 2021 • $48.99 • (£38.00)

978-1-4985-8823-2 • eBook • July 2020 • $46.50 • (£36.00)

Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies, Social Science / Minority Studies, Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations

Author

Shinsuke Eguchi is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico.

Bernadette Marie Calafell is inaugural department chair and professor of critical race and ethnic studies at Gonzaga University.

Shadee Abdi is assistant professor of communication in the Department of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Ashley Mack, Louisiana State University

Introduction: De-Whitening Intersectionality in Intercultural Communication

Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University

Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico

Shadee Abdi, San Francisco State University

Section I: The Politics of Theorizing

Chapter 1: Intersectionalities in the Fields of Chicana Feminism: Pursuing Decolonization through Xicanisma’s “Resurrection of the Dreamers”

Michelle A. Holling, California State University, San Marcos

Chapter 2: Lethal Intersections and “Chicana Badgirls”

Jaelyn deMaría, University of New Mexico

Chapter 3: Black Feminist Thought, Intersectionality, and Intercultural Communication

Aisha Durham, University of South Florida

Chapter 4: Intersectional Assemblages of Whiteness: The Case of Rachel Dolezal’s Whiteness

Dawn Marie McIntosh, Independent Scholar

Chapter 5: Doing intersectionality under a different name: The (un)intentional politics of refusal

Santhosh Chandrashekar, University of Denver

Section II: Personal Narratives

Chapter 6: Fighting Against Erasure: Making Space for Queer Chicanas

Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University

Chapter 7: A Local Gay Man/Tongzhi or A Transnational Queer/Qu-er/Kuer: (Re)organizing My

Queerness and Asianess through Personal Reflection

Andy Kai-chun Chuang, LaGuardia Community College

Chapter 8: What are you?: Embodying and Storying Categorical Uncertainty

Benny LeMaster, Arizona State University

Amber Johnson, St. Louis University.

Miranda Olzman, University of Denver

Chapter 9: Bodies that Collide: Feeling Intersectionality

Sachi Sekimoto, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Chris Brown, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Justin Rudnick, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Chapter 10: Microaggressions in Flux: Whiteness, Disability and Masculinity in Academia

Hannen Ghabra, Kuwait University

Shahd Al Shammari, Kuwait University

Section III: Transnational Circumferences

Chapter 11: Remembering Julia de Burgos: Faithful Witnessing through a Decolonial Feminist Performance

Sara Baugh, Agnes Scott College

Chapter 12: De-Whitening Intersectionality through Transfeminismo

Raquel Moreira, Graceland University

Chapter 13: Dark Looks: Sensory Contours of Racism in India

Pavi Prasad, California State University, Northridge

Anjana Raghavan, Sheffield Hallam University

Chapter 14: “We had to sink or swim”: Privileging racialized ethnic identifications among Asians and Asian Americans

Yea-Wen Chen, San Diego State University

Chapter 15: Crazy Sexy Asian Men!: Masculinities in Crazy Rich Asians

Zhao Ding, Gustavus Adolphus College

Kamela Rasmussen, University of New Mexico

Foreword

Ashley Mack, Louisiana State University

Introduction: De-Whitening Intersectionality in Intercultural Communication

Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University

Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico

Shadee Abdi, San Francisco State University

Section I: The Politics of Theorizing

Chapter 1: Intersectionalities in the Fields of Chicana Feminism: Pursuing Decolonization through Xicanisma’s “Resurrection of the Dreamers”

Michelle A. Holling, California State University, San Marcos

Chapter 2: Lethal Intersections and “Chicana Badgirls”

Jaelyn deMaría, University of New Mexico

Chapter 3: Black Feminist Thought, Intersectionality, and Intercultural Communication

Aisha Durham, University of South Florida

Chapter 4: Intersectional Assemblages of Whiteness: The Case of Rachel Dolezal’s Whiteness

Dawn Marie McIntosh, Independent Scholar

Chapter 5: Doing intersectionality under a different name: The (un)intentional politics of refusal

Santhosh Chandrashekar, University of Denver

Section II: Personal Narratives

Chapter 6: Fighting Against Erasure: Making Space for Queer Chicanas

Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University

Chapter 7: A Local Gay Man/Tongzhi or A Transnational Queer/Qu-er/Kuer: (Re)organizing My

Queerness and Asianess through Personal Reflection

Andy Kai-chun Chuang, LaGuardia Community College

Chapter 8: What are you?: Embodying and Storying Categorical Uncertainty

Benny LeMaster, Arizona State University

Amber Johnson, St. Louis University.

Miranda Olzman, University of Denver

Chapter 9: Bodies that Collide: Feeling Intersectionality

Sachi Sekimoto, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Chris Brown, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Justin Rudnick, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Chapter 10: Microaggressions in Flux: Whiteness, Disability and Masculinity in Academia

Hannen Ghabra, Kuwait University

Shahd Al Shammari, Kuwait University

Section III: Transnational Circumferences

Chapter 11: Remembering Julia de Burgos: Faithful Witnessing through a Decolonial Feminist Performance

Sara Baugh, Agnes Scott College

Chapter 12: De-Whitening Intersectionality through Transfeminismo

Raquel Moreira, Graceland University

Chapter 13: Dark Looks: Sensory Contours of Racism in India

Pavi Prasad, California State University, Northridge

Anjana Raghavan, Sheffield Hallam University

Chapter 14: “We had to sink or swim”: Privileging racialized ethnic identifications among Asians and Asian Americans

Yea-Wen Chen, San Diego State University

Chapter 15: Crazy Sexy Asian Men!: Masculinities in Crazy Rich Asians

Zhao Ding, Gustavus Adolphus College

Kamela Rasmussen, University of New Mexico

Reviews

By bringing back the critical edge of this intellectual and political tradition, De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics is an important and powerful intervention in the communication discipline. This timely anthology sets a new agenda for future theorizing and research on intersectionality in communication and beyond.
— Gust A. Yep, San Francisco State University

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Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics

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Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics

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