Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity

by Fong, Mary; Chuang, Rueyling; Akindes, Fay Yokomizo; Alexander, Bryant K.; Anderson, Timothy J.; Bailey, Curtiss L.; Bradford, Lisa; Broome, Benjamin J.; Buchanan, Merry; Burrell, Nancy A.; Chhuor, Peter; Dollar, Natalie; Hafen, Susan; Langellier, Kristin

• ISBN13: 9780742517394
• ISBN10: 074251739X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-11-24
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This intercultural communication text reader brings together the many dimensions of ethnic and cultural identity and shows how they are communicated in everyday life. Introducing and applying key concepts, theories, and approaches_from empirical to ethnographic_the chapters look at the experiences of African Americans, Asians, Asian Americans, Latino/as, and Native Americans, as well as many cultural groups. The authors also explore issues such as gender, race, class, spirituality, alternative lifestyles, and inter- and intraethnic identity. The focus of analysis ranges from movies and photo albums to beauty salons and Deadhead gatherings.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
PART I Introduction to Ethnic and Cultural Identity
Introduction	1	(2)
Identity and the Speech Community	3	(16)
Mary Fong
Multiple Dimensions of Identity	19	(16)
Mary Fong
Ethnic and Cultural Identity: Distinguishing Features	35	(16)
Mary Fong
Theoretical Perspectives: Fluidity and Complexity of Cultural and Ethnic Identity	51	(18)
Rueyling Chuang
Approaches to Cultural Identity: Personal Notes from an Autoethnographical Journey	69	(16)
Gust A. Yep
PART II Artifacts and Cultural Identity
Introduction	83	(2)
Grandma's Photo Album: Clothing as Symbolic Representations of Identity	85	(20)
Fay Yokomizo Akindes
She Speaks to Us, for Us, and of Us: Our Lady of Guadalupe as a Semiotic Site of Struggle and Identity	105	(16)
Robert Westerfelhaus
Memory, Cinema, and the Reconstitution of Cultural Identities in the Asian Indian Diaspora	121	(14)
Anjali Ram
Intercultural Weddings and the Simultaneous Display of Multiple Identities	135	(16)
Wendy Leeds--Hurwitz
PART III Language, Terms, and Identity
Introduction	149	(2)
Pahiwatig: The Role of ``Ambiguity'' in Filipino American Communication Patterns	151	(14)
S. Lily Mendoza
Cultural and Intercultural Speech Uses and Meanings of the Term Nigga	165	(14)
Mary Fong
Keturah D. McEwen
Lesbian History and Politics of Identities	179	(20)
Susan Hafen
The Chicken Haulers and the High Liners: CB Talk among Interstate Truckers	199	(18)
Debra-L Sequeira
Timothy J. Anderson
PART IV Cultural Communities and Social Identities
Introduction	215	(2)
Tighten Me Up: Reflecting and Maintaining Ethnic Identity through Daily Interactions in an African American--Owned Beauty Salon	217	(14)
Curtiss L. Bailey
John Oetzel
Communicating a Latina Identity: Becoming Different, Doing Difference, and Being Different	231	(16)
Margarita Refugia Olivas
Communicating Deadhead Identity: Exploring Identity from a Cultural Communication Perspective	247	(14)
Natalie J. Dollar
I Want You to Talk for Me: An Ethnography of Communication of the Osage Indian	261	(14)
Steven B. Pratt
Merry C. Buchanan
Building a Shared Future across the Divide: Identity and Conflict in Cyprus	275	(22)
Benjamin J. Broome
PART V Negotiating Cultural Identities and the Sense of Belonging
Introduction	295	(2)
``Where I Come From Is Where I Want to Be'': Communicating Franco American Ethnicity	297	(16)
Kristin M. Langellier
Negotiating Cultural Identity: Strategies for Belonging	313	(16)
Lisa Bradford
Nancy A. Burrell
Edward A. Mabry
Negotiating Cultural Identity in the Classroom	329	(16)
Bryant K. Alexander
``Perpetual Foreigner'': In Search of Asian Americans' Identity and Otherness	345	(18)
Rueyling Chuang
PART VI Autoethnographies: Developing and Transforming Ethnic and Cultural Identities
Introduction	361	(2)
Personal Journey: My Struggle between Cambodian and Chinese Identities	363	(10)
Peter Chhuor
A Little Bit Black---But Not All the Way	373	(10)
Jerry Pinkney
Index	383	(6)
About the Contributors	389