Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication

by Gonzalez, Alberto; Houston, Marsha; Chen, Victoria

• ISBN13: 9781891487354
• ISBN10: 1891487353
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Foreword	xii
Orlando L. Taylor
Introduction	xiii
Alberto Gonzalez
Marsha Houston
Victoria Chen
Part I: Naming Ourselves
(De)hyphenated Identity: The Double Voice in The Woman Warrior	3	(10)
Victoria Chen
Dis/orienting Identities: Asian Americans, History, and Intercultural Communication	13	(6)
Thomas Nakayama
How I Came to Know `In Self Realization There Is Truth'	19	(6)
Sidney A. Ribeau
Names, Narratives, and the Evolution of Ethnic Identity	25	(6)
Dolores V. Tanno
Part II: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender
Jewish and/or Woman: Identity and Communicative Style	31	(6)
Sheryl Perlmutter Bowen
Remembering Selena	37	(5)
Alberto Gonzalez
Jennifer L. Willis-Rivera
When Miss America Was Always White	42	(5)
Navita Cummings James
Illusive Reflections: African American Women on Primetime Television	47	(7)
Bishetta D. Merritt
Black Queer Identity, Imaginative Rationality, and the Language of Home	54	(9)
Charles I. Nero
Part III: Representing Cultural Knowledge in Interpersonal and Mass Media Contexts
Negotiating Cyberspace/Negotiating RL	63	(9)
Radhika Gajjala
The Rhetoric of La Familia Among Mexican Americans	72	(12)
Margarita Gangotena
When Mississippi Chinese Talk	84	(8)
Gwendolyn Gong
The Reason Why We Sing: Understanding Traditional African American Worship	92	(6)
Janice D. Hamlet
When Black Women Talk With White Women: Why the Dialogues Are Difficult	98	(7)
Marsha Houston
Latina/o Experiences With Mediated Communication	105	(8)
Diana I. Rios
Native American Culture and Communication Through Humor	113	(8)
Charmaine Shutiva
Part IV: Celebrating Cultures
Capturing the Spirit of Kwanzaa	121	(4)
Detine L. Bowers
A House as Symbol, a House as Family: Mamaw and Her Oklahoma Cherokee Family	125	(4)
Lynda Dee Dixon
Communicating Good Luck During the Chinese New Year	129	(4)
Mary Fong
Hybrid Revivals: Defining Asian Indian Ethnicity Through Celebration	133	(8)
Radha S. Hegde
Part V: Valuing and Contesting Languages
Identity and Struggle in Jamaican Talk	141	(9)
Dexter B. Gordon
The Power of Wastah in Lebanese Speech	150	(5)
Mahboub Hashem
Wa-Zha-Zhe I-E: Notions on a Dying Ancestral Language	155	(9)
Steven B. Pratt
Merry C. Buchanan
Broadening the View of Black Language Use: Toward a Better Understanding of Words and Worlds	164	(7)
Karla D. Scott
Confessions of a Thirty-Something Hip-Hop (Old) Head	171	(8)
Eric King Watts
Part VI: Living in Bicultural Relationships
Sapphire and Sappho: Allies in Authenticity	179	(5)
Brenda J. Allen
`I Know It Was the Blood': Defining the Biracial Self in a Euro-American Society	184	(6)
Tine M. Harris
Being Hapa: A Choice for Cultural Empowerment	190	(5)
Diane M. Kimoto
Living In/Between	195	(12)
Richard Morris
Part VII: Traversing Cultural Paths
Women Writing Borders, Borders Writing Women: Immigration, Assimilation, and the Politics of Speaking	207	(13)
Aimee M. Carillo Rowe
How We Know What We Know About Americans: Chinese Sojourners Account for Their Experiences	220	(8)
Ling Chen
The Cultural Experience of Space and Body: A Reading of Latin American and Anglo American Comportment in Public	228	(7)
Elizabeth Lozano
Regionalism and Communication: Exploring Chinese Immigrant Perspectives	235	(7)
Casey Man Kong Lum
Traversing Disparate Cultures in a Transnational World: A Bicultural/Hybrid Experience	242	(13)
Maria Rogers-Pascual
Appendices
Suggested Questions for Discussion	255	(3)
Supplementary Readings	258	(5)
About the Contributors	263