De-Whitening Intersectionality: 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 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. As a feminist of color tradition, intersectionality has been appropriated through increasing popularity in the discipline of communication, undermining efforts to critique power when researchers reduce the concept to a checklist of identity markers. This book underscores that in order to play well with and illustrate a nuanced understanding of intersectionality; scholars must be attentive to its origins and implications.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Ashley Mack, Louisiana State University Introduction: De-Whitening Intersectionality in Intercultural Communication Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico Shadee Abdi, San Francisco State University Section I: The Politics of Theorizing Chapter 1: Intersectionalities in the Fields of Chicana Feminism: Pursuing Decolonization through Xicanisma’s “Resurrection of the Dreamers” Michelle A. Holling, California State University, San Marcos Chapter 2: Lethal Intersections and “Chicana Badgirls” Jaelyn deMaría, University of New Mexico Chapter 3: Black Feminist Thought, Intersectionality, and Intercultural Communication Aisha Durham, University of South Florida Chapter 4: Intersectional Assemblages of Whiteness: The Case of Rachel Dolezal’s Whiteness Dawn Marie McIntosh, Independent Scholar Chapter 5: Doing intersectionality under a different name: The (un)intentional politics of refusal Santhosh Chandrashekar, University of Denver Section II: Personal Narratives Chapter 6: Fighting Against Erasure: Making Space for Queer Chicanas Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University Chapter 7: A Local Gay Man/Tongzhi or A Transnational Queer/Qu-er/Kuer: (Re)organizing My Queerness and Asianess through Personal Reflection Andy Kai-chun Chuang, LaGuardia Community College Chapter 8: What are you?: Embodying and Storying Categorical Uncertainty Benny LeMaster, Arizona State University Amber Johnson, St. Louis University. Miranda Olzman, University of Denver Chapter 9: Bodies that Collide: Feeling Intersectionality Sachi Sekimoto, Minnesota State University, Mankato Chris Brown, Minnesota State University, Mankato Justin Rudnick, Minnesota State University, Mankato Chapter 10: Microaggressions in Flux: Whiteness, Disability and Masculinity in Academia Hannen Ghabra, Kuwait University Shahd Al Shammari, Kuwait University Section III: Transnational Circumferences Chapter 11: Remembering Julia de Burgos: Faithful Witnessing through a Decolonial Feminist Performance Sara Baugh, Agnes Scott College Chapter 12: De-Whitening Intersectionality through Transfeminismo Raquel Moreira, Graceland University Chapter 13: Dark Looks: Sensory Contours of Racism in India Pavi Prasad, California State University, Northridge Anjana Raghavan, Sheffield Hallam University Chapter 14: “We had to sink or swim”: Privileging racialized ethnic identifications among Asians and Asian Americans Yea-Wen Chen, San Diego State University Chapter 15: Crazy Sexy Asian Men!: Masculinities in Crazy Rich Asians Zhao Ding, Gustavus Adolphus College Kamela Rasmussen, University of New Mexico Foreword Ashley Mack, Louisiana State University Introduction: De-Whitening Intersectionality in Intercultural Communication Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University Shinsuke Eguchi, University of New Mexico Shadee Abdi, San Francisco State University Section I: The Politics of Theorizing Chapter 1: Intersectionalities in the Fields of Chicana Feminism: Pursuing Decolonization through Xicanisma’s “Resurrection of the Dreamers” Michelle A. Holling, California State University, San Marcos Chapter 2: Lethal Intersections and “Chicana Badgirls” Jaelyn deMaría, University of New Mexico Chapter 3: Black Feminist Thought, Intersectionality, and Intercultural Communication Aisha Durham, University of South Florida Chapter 4: Intersectional Assemblages of Whiteness: The Case of Rachel Dolezal’s Whiteness Dawn Marie McIntosh, Independent Scholar Chapter 5: Doing intersectionality under a different name: The (un)intentional politics of refusal Santhosh Chandrashekar, University of Denver Section II: Personal Narratives Chapter 6: Fighting Against Erasure: Making Space for Queer Chicanas Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga University Chapter 7: A Local Gay Man/Tongzhi or A Transnational Queer/Qu-er/Kuer: (Re)organizing My Queerness and Asianess through Personal Reflection Andy Kai-chun Chuang, LaGuardia Community College Chapter 8: What are you?: Embodying and Storying Categorical Uncertainty Benny LeMaster, Arizona State University Amber Johnson, St. Louis University. Miranda Olzman, University of Denver Chapter 9: Bodies that Collide: Feeling Intersectionality Sachi Sekimoto, Minnesota State University, Mankato Chris Brown, Minnesota State University, Mankato Justin Rudnick, Minnesota State University, Mankato Chapter 10: Microaggressions in Flux: Whiteness, Disability and Masculinity in Academia Hannen Ghabra, Kuwait University Shahd Al Shammari, Kuwait University Section III: Transnational Circumferences Chapter 11: Remembering Julia de Burgos: Faithful Witnessing through a Decolonial Feminist Performance Sara Baugh, Agnes Scott College Chapter 12: De-Whitening Intersectionality through Transfeminismo Raquel Moreira, Graceland University Chapter 13: Dark Looks: Sensory Contours of Racism in India Pavi Prasad, California State University, Northridge Anjana Raghavan, Sheffield Hallam University Chapter 14: “We had to sink or swim”: Privileging racialized ethnic identifications among Asians and Asian Americans Yea-Wen Chen, San Diego State University Chapter 15: Crazy Sexy Asian Men!: Masculinities in Crazy Rich Asians Zhao Ding, Gustavus Adolphus College Kamela Rasmussen, University of New Mexico

About the Author :
Shinsuke Eguchi is associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of New Mexico. Bernadette Marie Calafell is inaugural department chair and professor of critical race and ethnic studies at Gonzaga University. Shadee Abdi is assistant professor of communication in the Department of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University.

Review :
By bringing back the critical edge of this intellectual and political tradition, De-Whitening Intersectionality: Race, Intercultural Communication, and Politics is an important and powerful intervention in the communication discipline. This timely anthology sets a new agenda for future theorizing and research on intersectionality in communication and beyond.