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COM 4813: Communicating Identity and Difference (DeTurk)
Guide for Professor Sara DeTurk's course.
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- Race, Class, and Gender by Margaret L. Andersen; Patricia Hill CollinsCall Number: E-bookISBN: 9781305093614Publication Date: 2015-03-10Featuring a readable and diverse collection of more than 60 writings by a variety of scholars, RACE, CLASS, & GENDER demonstrates how the complex intersection of people's race, class, gender, and sexuality shapes their experiences and who they become as individuals. Each reading addresses a timely-and often controversial-topic, such as health care inequality, undocumented students, domestic violence, genetic technologies, and the effect of the media on body image, thereby giving readers a multidimensional perspective on a number of social issues. Co-editors Andersen and Collins begin each section with an in-depth introduction to provide readers with a framework for approaching and understanding the articles.
- Our Voices by Alberto Gonzalez; Marsha Houston; Victoria ChenCall Number: Textbooks chapters linked in Canvas.ISBN: 0199737215Publication Date: 2011-02-25Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication examines intercultural communication through an array of cultural and personal perspectives, with each of its contributors writing a first-person account of his or her experiences in the real world. While most readings arecollections of scholarly essays that describe intercultural communication, Our Voices presents short, student-oriented readings chosen with an eye toward engaging the reader. Collectively, the readings tackle the key areas of communication - rhetoric, mass communication, and interpersonalcommunication - using a uniquely expansive and humanist perspective that provides a voice to otherwise marginalized members of society.Praised by students for its abundance of short, first-person narratives, Our Voices traverses topics as diverse as queer identity, racial discourse in the United States, "survival mechanisms" in Jamaican speech, and codes of communication in nontraditional families.Empowering and educating students in equal measure, Our Voices is an ideal reader for any intercultural communication course.
- Critical Autoethnography by Robin M. Boylorn (Editor); Mark P. Orbe (Editor)ISBN: 9781611323139Publication Date: 2013-11-30This volume uses autoethnography--cultural analysis through personal narrative--to explore the tangled relationships between culture and communication. Using an intersectional approach to the many aspects of identity at play in everyday life, a diverse group of authors reveals the complex nature of lived experiences. They situate interpersonal experiences of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and orientation within larger systems of power, oppression, and social privilege. An excellent resource for undergraduates, graduate students, educators, and scholars in the fields of intercultural and interpersonal communication, and qualitative methodology.
- The Edge of Sex by Lisa Speidel (Editor); Micah Jones (Editor)ISBN: 9780367338343Publication Date: 2019-12-13The Edge of Sex is an anthology of voices from the margins, bringing together 37 writers to discuss their experiences of sex and sex education in America. The anthology explores often overlooked and excluded identities, with pieces on sexuality and disabilities, survivors of assault, sex work as women of color, kink and BDSM, being Muslim and queer, reproductive rights, and the challenges of culture and identity when grappling with gender fluidity and gendered expectations. As they trace the negative effects of a restrictive, fear-based sex education - particularly on marginalized individuals - these stories unearth larger themes: tensions with race and religion, expectations from heteronormative society, and pressures of femininity and masculinity. Importantly, they also highlight the resilience and empowerment of marginalized individuals within a culture designed to ostracize them. The rich, diverse, and intersectional stories of The Edge of Sex paint a contextualized picture of sex education and make an urgent case for better representation and more inclusive, consistent, and comprehensive content. By reading this anthology, casual readers may learn more about their sexual selves, clinicians can apply the material to their practices with clients, and educators and students can expand their knowledge of feminist theory, intersectional theory, queer theory, and sex education.
- Emerging Intersections by Bonnie Thornton Dill (Contribution by, Editor); Tiffany Manuel (Contribution by); Avis Jones-Deweever (Contribution by); Sanford Schram (Contribution by); L. Janelle Dance (Contribution by); Lorrie Ann Frasure (Contribution by); Linda Faye Williams (Contribution by); Ruth Enid Zambrana (Contribution by, Editor); Patricia Collins (Contribution by); Amy McLaughlin (Contribution by); Elizabeth Higginbotham (Contribution by); Debra Henderson (Contribution by); Ann Tickamyer (Contribution by); Victoria-Maria MacDonald (Contribution by); Mary Gatta (Contribution by)ISBN: 0813544548Publication Date: 2009-01-01The United States is known as a "melting pot" yet this mix tends to be volatile and contributes to a long history of oppression, racism, and bigotry. Emerging Intersections, an anthology of ten previously unpublished essays, looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from new angles and promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool that can be utilized to better understand the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives today. The book showcases innovative contributions that expand our understanding of how inequality affects people of color, demonstrates the ways public policies reinforce existing systems of inequality, and shows how research and teaching using an intersectional perspective compels scholars to become agents of change within institutions. By offering practical applications for using intersectional knowledge, Emerging Intersections will help bring us one step closer to achieving positive institutional change and social justice.
- Language, Sexualities and Desires by Sakis Kyratzis (Editor); Helen Sauntson (Editor)ISBN: 9781403933270Publication Date: 2006-12-14Sexualities are perceived, constructed and represented in different ways in various languages and cultures. This volume addresses how people use various linguistic features to construct their sexual identities and relationships and how membership of specific social groups, based on sexual and lifestyle choices, may be signalled through language.
- Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual by Holly CashmanISBN: 0415739098Publication Date: 2017-11-15Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book Prize This book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolitan area in the U.S. Southwest. The main focus of the book is to examine participants' conceptions of their ethnic and sexual identities and how identities influence (and are influenced by) language practices. This book explores the intersubjective construction and negotiation of identities among queer Mexicans/Latinxs, paying attention to how identities are co-constructed in the interview setting in coming out narratives and in narratives of silence. The book destabilizes the dominant narrative on language maintenance and shift in sociolinguistics, much of which relies on a (heterosexual) family-based model of intergenerational language transmission, by bringing those individuals often at the margin of the family (LGBTQ members) to the center of the analysis. It contributes to the queering of bilingualism and Spanish in the U.S., not only by including a previously unstudied subgroup (LGBTQ people), but also by providing a different lens through which to view the diverse language and identity practices of U.S. Mexicans/Latinxs. This book addresses this exclusion and makes a significant contribution to the study of bilingualism and multilingualism by bringing LGBTQ Latinas/os to the center of the analysis.
- Serial Selves by Frederik Byrn KøhlertISBN: 9780813592299Publication Date: 2019-03-15Autobiography is one of the most dynamic and quickly-growing genres in contemporary comics and graphic narratives. In Serial Selves, Frederik Byrn Køhlert examines the genre's potential for representing lives and perspectives that have been socially marginalized or excluded. With a focus on the comics form's ability to produce alternative and challenging autobiographical narratives, thematic chapters investigate the work of artists writing from perspectives of marginality including gender, sexuality, disability, and race, as well as trauma. Interdisciplinary in scope and attuned to theories and methods from both literary and visual studies, the book provides detailed formal analysis to show that the highly personal and hand-drawn aesthetics of comics can help artists push against established narrative and visual conventions, and in the process invent new ways of seeing and being seen. As the first comparative study of how comics artists from a wide range of backgrounds use the form to write and draw themselves into cultural visibility, Serial Selves will be of interest to anyone interested in the current boom in autobiographical comics, as well as issues of representation in comics and visual culture more broadly.
- Everyday Social Justice: Using Simple Words to Talk About Equity and OppressionThis website is for people who want to learn about social justice.
- Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies by Millian Kang; Sonny Nordmarken; Donovan Lessard; Laura HestonISBN: 9781945764028Publication Date: 2017-06-30This textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary Women, Gender, Sexualities field. It unpacks the social construction of knowledge and categories of difference, processes and structures of power and inequality, with a focus on gendered labor in the global economy, and the historical development of feminist social movements. The book emphasizes feminist sociological approaches to analyzing structures of power, drawing heavily from empirical feminist research. Chapter 6 covers Social Construction.
- Out from the Shadows: Power, Pride and Perseverance at a Northern Community College by Jay Willams & Alison Bergblom JohnsonPublication Date: 2019Minneapolis College, the most selected higher education destination of students from all Minneapolis Public High Schools, is located downtown, nestled between the hustle of Hennepin Avenue and the green spaces of Loring Park. As a part of the Minnesota State system of colleges and universities, Minneapolis College most serves those students who are least likely to go to college. With three-quarters of the student body composed of those underrepresented in higher education, the hallways are filled with recent immigrants, those seeking to learn English, members of communities with the highest unemployment and incarceration rates in the state, veterans, those of low socioeconomic status, seekers of diversity, and those who wish to serve them. Collected here are their stories, stories of overcoming, coming up, perseverance, pride, and power in the face of depressed opportunity and systemic oppression.
- Gender and Sexualities: An Inquiry by Jason Gary Damron & Vicki L. ReitenauerPublication Date: 2014Gender and Sexualities: An Inquiry provides an interdisciplinary and intersectional framework
for thinking critically about the historical and contemporary applications of knowledge about
gender and sexuality. This may be straightforward in some arenas, but we will find navigating
gender and sexuality terminologies (e.g., sexual orientation, what constitutes “sex” in particular
places and times, sexual identity, gender and gender identity, among many other discussions) to
be a rigorous historical, personal, political, philosophical, and anthropological study (to name
just a few of the intellectual traditions we encounter). Throughout we encourage readers to
interrogate social ideals and other narratives that aim to “naturalize” gender and sexuality.