Includes bibliographical references and index

Critical intercultural communication studies: at a crossroads / Rona Tamiko Halualani ; Thomas K. Nakayama -- Part 1: Critical junctures and reflections in our field: a revisiting. -- Writing the intellectual history of intercultural communication / Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz -- Critical reflections on culture and critical intercultural communication / Dreama G. Moon -- Reflecting upon "enlarging conceptual boundaries: a critique of research in intercultural communication" / Alberto Gonz©Łlez -- Intercultural communication dialectics revisited / Judith N. Martin ; Thomas K. Nakayama -- Reflections on "problematizing 'nation' in intercultural communication research" / Kent A. Ono -- Reflections on "bridging paradigms: how not to throw out the baby of collective representation with the functionalist bathwater in critical intercultural communication" / S. Lily Mendoza -- Revisiting the borderlands of critical intercultural communication / Leda Cooks -- Expanding the circumference of intercultural communication study / William J. Starosta ; Guo-Ming Chen -- Part 2: Critical dimensions in intercultural communication studies -- Internationalizing critical race communication studies: transnationality, space, and affect / Raka Shome -- Re-imagining intercultural communication in the context of globalization / Kathryn Sorrells -- Culture as text and culture as theory: Asiacentricity and its raison d'©®tre in intercultural communication research / Yoshitaka Miike -- Entering the inter: power lines in intercultural communication / Aimee Carrillo Rowe -- Speaking of difference: language, inequality and interculturality / Crispin Thurlow -- Speaking against the hegemony of English: problems, ideologies and solutions / Yukio Tsuda -- Coculturation: toward a critical theoretical framework of cultural adjustment / Melissa L. Curtin -- Public memories in the shadow of the other: divided memories and national identity / Jolanta A. Drzewiecka -- Critical intercultural communication, remembrances of George Washington Williams, and the rediscovery of Leopold II's "Crimes against humanity" / Marouf Hasian -- Part 3: Critical topics in intercultural communication studies. -- Situating gender in critical intercultural communication studies / Lara Lengel ; Scott C. Martin -- Identity and difference: race and the necessity of the discriminating subject / Ronald L. Jackson II ; Jamie Moshin -- Br(other) in the classroom: testimony, reflection, and cultural negotiation / Bryant Keith Alexander -- When frankness goes funky: Afro-proxemics meets western polemics at the border of the suburb / Jim Perkinson -- Iterative hesitancies and Latinidad: the reverberances of raciality / Bernadette Marie Calafell ; Shane T. Moreman -- We got game: race, masculinity, and civilization in professional team sport / Lisa A. Flores ; Karen Lee Ashcraft ; Tracy Marafiote -- It really isn't about you: whiteness and the dangers of thinking you got it / John T. Warren -- Critical reflections on a pedagogy of ability / Deanna L. Fassett -- The scarlet letter, vigilantism, and the politics of sadism / Richard Morris -- Authenticity and identity in the portable homeland / Victoria Chen -- Layers of Nikkei: Japanese diaspora and World War II / Etsuko Kinefuchi -- Placing South Asian digital diasporas in second life / Radhika Gajjala -- "The creed of the white kid": A diss-apology / Melissa Steyn -- A critical reflection on an intercultural communication workshop: Mexicans and Taiwanese working on the U.S.-Mexico border / Hsin-I Cheng -- "Quit whining and tell me about your experiences!": (in)tolerance, pragmatism, and muting in intergroup dialogue / Sarah DeTurk -- A proposal for concerted collaboration between critical scholars of intercultural and organizational communication / Brenda J. Allen -- Part 4: Critical visions of intercultural communication studies. -- Conclusion: envisioning the pathway(s) of critical intercultural communication studies / Thomas K. Nakayama ; Rona Tamiko Halualani

A consolidated resource of works that highlights all aspects of this developing field, its historical inception, logics, terms, and possibilities; traces the significant historical developments in intercultural communication; helps students and scholars to revisit, assess, and reflect on the formation of critical intercultural communication studies; posits new directions for the field in terms of theorizing, knowledge production, and social justice engagement