African American Communication & Identities

SECTION 1. THEORETIC APPROACHES TO AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNICATION AND IDENTITIES Ch 1. How I Got Over: Communication Dynamics in the Black Community - Jack L. Daniel and Geneva Smitherman Ch 2. The Afrocentric Idea - Molefi Kete Asante Ch 3. Complicity: The Theory of Negative Difference - Mark Lawrence McPhail Ch 4. Black Kinesics: Some Nonverbal Communication Patterns in Black Culture - Kenneth R. Johnson Ch 5. Improvisation as a Performance Strategy for African-based Theatre - Joni L. Jones SECTION 2. AFRICAN AMERICAN RHETORIC AND LANGUAGE Ch 6. A Dilemma of Black Communication Scholars: The Challenge of Finding New Rhetorical Tools - Deborah F. Atwater Ch 7. African American Ethos and Hermeneutical Rhetoric: An exploration of Alain Locke's The New Negro - Eric King Watts Ch 8. Playing the Dozens: Folklore as Strategies for Living - Thurmon Garner Ch 9. Black Street Speech: Its History, Structure, and Survival - John Baugh SECTION 3. AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNICATION IN RELATIONAL CONTEXTS Ch 10. An Afro-American Perspective on Interethnic Communication - Michael L. Hecht, Sidney Ribeau, and J. K. Alberts Ch 11. Interracial Dating: The Implications of Race for Initiating a Romantic Relationship - Tina M. Harris, Pamela Kalbfleisch Ch 12. The Changing Influence of Interpersonal Perceptions on Marital Well-being Among Black and White Couples - Linda K. Acitelli. Elizabeth Douvan, and Joseph Veroff Ch 13. Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord": Participation in African American Churches Among Young African American Men Who Have Sex With Men - Jeffrey Lynn Woodyard, John L. Peterson, and Joseph P. Stokes effrey Lynn Woodyard, J. L. Peterson, J. P. Stokes SECTION 4. COMMUNICATING AFRICAN AMERICAN GENDERED IDENTITIES Ch 14. Multiple Perspectives: African American Women Conceive Their Talk - Marsha Houston Ch 15. Crossing Cultural Borders: "Girl" and "Look" as Markers of Identity in Black Women's Language Use - Karla D. Scott Ch 16. "That Was My Occupation": Oral Narrative, Performance, and Black Feminist Thought - D. Soyini Madison Ch 17. Interrogating the Representation of African American Female Identity in the Films "Waiting to Exhale" and "Set It Off." - Tina M. Harris Ch 18. Defining Black Masculinity as Cultural Property: An Identity Negotiation Paradigm - Ronald L. Jackson, II and Celnisha L. Dangerfield SECTION 5. AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNICATION AND IDENTITIES IN ORGANIZATIONAL AND INSTRUCTIONAL CONTEXTS Ch 19. "Diversity" and Organizational Communication - Brenda J. Allen, Ch 20. African American Women Executives' Leadership Communication Within Dominant-Culture Organizations - Patricia S. Parker Ch. 21. Student Perceptions of the Influence of Race on Professor Credibility - Katherine Grace Hendrix Ch 22. Exploring African American Identity Negotiation in the Academy: Toward a Transformative Vision of African American Communication Scholarship - Ronald L. Jackson, II SECTION 6. AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITIES IN MASS MEDIATED CONTEXTS Ch 23. The Changing Image of the African American Family on Television - Melbourne S. Cummings Ch 24. Jammin' on the One! Some Reflections on the Politics of Black Popular Culture - Herman Gray Ch 25. Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in American Films - Donald Bogle Ch 26. Black Talk Radio: Defining Community Needs and Identity - Catherine R. Squires