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Our voices : essays in culture, ethnicity, and communication
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Brief, original essays teach students about particular cultures through the perspective of someone within that culture, promoting greater understanding of others.
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- Creator
- [edited by] Alberto Gonzalez, Bowling Green State University ; Yea-Wen Chen, Ohio University
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Sixth edition
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2016
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 353 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780190255237, 0190255234
- OCLC
- ocn913647153
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Introduction / Alberto González and Yea-Wen Chen -- Part I: Naming Ourselves -- 1. "What's in a Name?" Shifting Meanings, Negotiating Identities, and Globalizing Relationships / Yea-Wen Chen -- 2. Growing Up Together: The Internet, Cultural Knowledge, and Thai Names / Jenny Ungbha Korn -- 3. Dis/orienting Identities: Asian Americans, History, and Intercultural Communication / Thomas Nakayama -- 4. Osage Naming Ritual as a Form of Cultural Identity / Steven B. Pratt, Merry C. Pratt, and Rozilyn Miller -- 5. Names, Narratives, and the Evolution of Ethnic Identity / Dolores V. Tanno -- Part II: Representing Cultural Knowledge in Interpersonal and Mediated Contexts -- 6. I Am Hearing Impaired: Negotiating Identity in a Hearing World / John Parrish-Sprowl -- 7. Sister-Friends: Reflections on Black Women's Communication in Intra- and Intercultural Friendships / Nekita Huling, Creshema Murray, and Marsha Houston -- 8. The Rhetoric of La Familia among Mexican Americans / Margarita Gangotena -- 9. When Mississippi Chinese Talk / Gwendolyn Gong -- 10. The Reason Why We Sing: Understanding Traditional African American Worship / Janice D. Hamlet -- 11. Latina/o Experiences with Mediated Communication / Diana I. Ríos -- 12. "I Am Not Jamal": Asian Indians, Simplistic Perceptions, and the Model Minority Myth / Pravin Rodrigues -- 13. Native American Culture and Communication Through Humor / Charmaine Shutiva -- 14. Statue or Statement? Racial Tensions in a 9/11 Memorial / Teresa Nance and Anita Foeman -- Part III: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender -- 15. Women and Islam: A Muslim Feminist Perspective / Hoda Al-Mutawah -- 16. Jewish and/or Woman: Identity and Communicative Style / Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen -- 17. Tyler Perry: The (Self-Appointed) Savior of Black Womanhood / Robin R. Means Coleman -- 18. When Miss America Was Always White / Navita Cummings James -- 19. Black Queer Identity, Imaginative Rationality, and the Language of Home / Charles I. Nero -- 20. Navigating the Third Space with Double Consciousness: South Asian Indian Women in the American Workplace / Suchitra Shenoy-Packer -- 21. Constructing U.S. American Jewish Male Identity / David E. Weber -- Part IV: Celebrating Cultures -- 22. Hispanic Heritage Month: Not for Members Only / Alberto González and Jennifer Willis-Rivera -- 23. Communicating Good Luck During the Chinese New Year / Mary Fong -- 24. Hybrid Revivals: Ethnicity and South Asian Celebration / Radha S. Hegde -- Part V: Valuing and Contesting Languages -- 25. Identity and Struggle in Jamaican Talk / Dexter B. Gordon -- 26. The Power of Wastah in Lebanese Speech / Mahboub Hashem -- 27. Broadening the View of Black Language Use: Toward a Better Understanding of Words and Worlds / Karla D. Scott -- 28. Confessions of a Thirty-Something Hip-Hop (Old) Head / Eric King Watts -- Part VI: Living in Bicultural Relationships -- 29. Sapphire and Sappho: Allies in Authenticity / Brenda J. Allen -- 30. Creating a Family Across Race and Gender Borders / Marlene Fine and Fern Johnson -- 31. "I Know It Was the Blood": Defining the Biracial Self in a Euro-American Society / Tina M. Harris -- 32. Struggling for Identity: Multiethnic and Biracial Individuals in America / Mona Freeman Leonard -- Part VII: Intersecting Identities of Class and Culture -- 33. Invisible Identities: Notes on Class and Race / David Engen -- 34. Home as Respite for the Working-Class Academic / Katherine G. Hendrix -- 35. More Than White: Locating an Invisible Class Identity / Brandi Lawless -- 36. Working Through Identity: Understanding Class in the Context of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender / Kathleen Wong(Lau) -- -- Part VIII: Traversing Cultural Paths -- *Preview to Part VIII -- 37. Deconstructing the Refugee Body: Toward an Intercultural Understanding of Refugee and Host Communities / Eddah Mbula Mutua -- 38. Parenting in a Foreign Land: Experiences of Recent Chinese Immigrant Women / Qi Tang -- 39. Temporally Legal: My Traveling Across Borders of Im/migration / Hsin-I Cheng -- 40. Women Writing Borders, Borders Writing Women: Immigration, Assimilation and the Politics of Speaking / Aimee Carrillo Rowe -- 41. The Cultural Experience of Space and Body: A Reading of Latin American and Anglo-American Comportment in Public / Elizabeth Lozano -- 42. Regionalism and Communication: Voices from the Chinese Diaspora / Casey Man Kong Lum -- 43. Notes from the "War Generation": Lebanon and the 33 Days War / Souhad Kahil -- Appendix A: Suggested Questions for Discussion -- Appendix B: Supplementary Reading -- Appendix C: About the Contributors