African American Communication & Identities: Essential Readings

Essays by 30 American academics and researchers appear in this anthology for undergraduate and graduate students, showcasing and celebrating some of the foundational and contemporary pioneering and pivotal works of scholars who have contributed to the field now known as African-American Communication Studies. Twenty-six chapters explore aspects of African American communication including theoretic approaches to communication and identity; rhetoric, language, and identity; communication in relational contexts; communicating gendered identities; communication and identity in organizational and instructional contexts, and in mass mediated contexts. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR