De-whitening intersectionality : race, intercultural communication, and politics
Shinsuke Eguchi (Editor), Shadee Abdi (Editor), Ashley Noel Mack, Bernadette Marie Calafell (Editor)
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 distinguish between the uses of intersectionality that seem inclusive versus those that actually enact inclusion by demonstrating how to re-conceptualize intersectionality in ways that explicate, elucidate, and elaborate culture-specific and text-specific nuances of knowledge for women of color, queer/trans-people of color, and non-western people of color who have been marked as the Others
xxvii, 293 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
9781498588225, 1498588220
1144958042
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: De-Whitening Intersectionality in Intercultural Communication
SECTION I: THE POLITICS OF THEORIZING
1. Intersectionalities in the Fields of Chicana Feminism: Pursuing Decolonization through Xicanisma's "Resurrection of the Dreamers"
2. Lethal Intersections and "Chicana Badgirls"
3. Black Feminist Thought, Intersectionality, and Intercultural Communication
4. Intersectional Assemblages of Whiteness: The Case of Rachel Dolezal 5. Doing Intersectionality under a Different Name: The (Un)intentional Politics of Refusal
SECTION II: PERSONAL NARRATIVES
6. Making it Real PlainRuminations on De-Whitening Intersectionality in Academia From the Monstrous Queer Chicana Who Makes White Straight People Uncomfortable
7. A Local Gay Man/Tongzhi or A Transnational Queer/Qu-er/Kuer: (Re)organizing My Queerness and Asianness through Personal Reflection
8. What Are you?: Embodying and Storying Categorical (Un)certainty
9. Bodies that Collide: Feeling Intersectionality 10. Microaggressions in Flux: Whiteness, Disability, and Masculinity in Academia
SECTION III: TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUMFERENCES
11. Remembering Julia de Burgos: Faithful Witnessing as Decolonial Feminist Performance
12. De-Whitening Intersectionality through Transfeminismo
13. Dark Looks: Sensory Contours of Racism in India
14. "We Had to Sink or Swim": Privileging and Intersectionalizing Racialized Ethnic Identifications among Asians and Asian Americans
15. Crazy Sexy Asian Men!: Masculinities in Crazy Rich Asians
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors