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    Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics

    De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics re-evaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness is at play in the current scope of intersectional research on race, intercultural communication, and politics. Calling for a re-centering of difference by exploring the emergence and inception of intersectionality concepts, the coeditors and contributors ... Read more

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  • Home with Hip Hop Feminism

    Performances in Communication and Culture

    Series Book 26 - Intersections in Communications and Culture
    This book has won the 2015 Top Book Award from the NCA African American Communication and Culture Division (AACCD) of NCAHome with Hip Hop Feminism brings together popular culture and the everyday experiences of black women from the hip hop generation to highlight the epiphanic moments when the imagined and real body converge or collide.To date, there are no books devoted exclusively to black ... Read more

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    How to Make Your Point and Have It Stick

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  • I Have a Dream

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  • Billion Dollar Painter

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  • Humanitarian Aid and the Impoverished Rhetoric of Celebrity Advocacy

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  • Making Media Studies

    The Creativity Turn in Media and Communications Studies

    Series Book 93 - Digital Formations
    In Making Media Studies, David Gauntlett turns media and communications studies on its head. He proposes a vision of media studies based around doing and making – not about the acquisition of skills, as such, but an experience of building knowledge and understanding through creative hands-on engagement with all kinds of media. Gauntlett suggests that media studies scholars have failed to recognise ... Read more

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  • Gourmands and Gluttons

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    Series Book 34 - Intersections in Communications and Culture
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    Series Book 48 - Lodz Studies in Language
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