Thomas K. Nakayama is Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is founding editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and has published widely in the areas of critical race and critical intercultural communication, including Intercultural Communication in Contexts, Fourth Edition (2007), Experiencing Intercultural Communication, Third Edition (2007) and Human Communication in Society, Second Edition (2010).Rona Tamiko Halualani is Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication Studies at San Jose State University. Her research interests include the following: critical intercultural communication studies, intercultural contact, race/ethnicity; diversity, prejudice, identity and cultural politics, diasporic identity, and Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders. She is the author of In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics (2002).

"A fascinating read for those of us who are not familiar with this stream, as well as for those well-versed in the discipline. The contributions to the handbook represent a broad range of topics; they offer various theoretical perspectives and future orientations in critical intercultural communication."  (The Delta Intercultural Academy, 1 August 2013)

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xvii1 Critical Intercultural Communication Studies: At a Crossroads 1Rona Tamiko Halualani and Thomas K. NakayamaPart I Critical Junctures and Refl ections In Our Field: A Revisiting 172 Writing the Intellectual History of Intercultural Communication 21Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz3 Critical Reflections on Culture and Critical Intercultural Communication 34Dreama G. Moon4 Reflecting Upon “Enlarging Conceptual Boundaries: A Critique of Research in Intercultural Communication” 53Alberto González5 Intercultural Communication and Dialectics Revisited 59Judith N. Martin and Thomas K. Nakayama6 Reflections on “Problematizing ‘Nation’ in Intercultural Communication Research” 84Kent A. Ono7 Reflections on “Bridging Paradigms: How Not to Throw Out the Baby of Collective Representation with the Functionalist Bathwater in Critical Intercultural Communication” 98S. Lily Mendoza8 Revisiting the Borderlands of Critical Intercultural Communication 112Leda Cooks9 Expanding the Circumference of Intercultural Communication Study 130William J. Starosta and Guo-Ming ChenPart II Critical Dimensions in Intercultural Communication Studies 14710 Internationalizing Critical Race Communication Studies: Transnationality, Space, and Affect 149Raka Shome11 Re-imagining Intercultural Communication in the Context of Globalization 171Kathryn Sorrells12 Culture as Text and Culture as Theory: Asiacentricity and Its Raison D’être in Intercultural Communication Research 190Yoshitaka Miike13 Entering the Inter: Power Lines in Intercultural Communication 216Aimee Carrillo Rowe14 Speaking of Difference: Language, Inequality and Interculturality 227Crispin Thurlow15 Speaking Against the Hegemony of English: Problems, Ideologies, and Solutions 248Yukio Tsuda16 Coculturation: Toward A Critical Theoretical Framework of Cultural Adjustment 270Melissa L. Curtin17 Public Memories in the Shadow of the Other: Divided Memories and National Identity 286Jolanta A. Drzewiecka18 Critical Intercultural Communication, Remembrances of George Washington Williams, and the Rediscovery of Léopold II’s “Crimes Against Humanity” 311Marouf HasianPart III Critical Topics in Intercultural Communication Studies 33319 Situating Gender in Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 335Lara Lengel and Scott C. Martin20 Identity and Difference: Race and the Necessity of the Discriminating Subject 348Ronald L. Jackson II and Jamie Moshin21 Br(other) in the Classroom: Testimony, Reflection, and Cultural Negotiation 364Bryant Keith Alexander22 When Frankness Goes Funky: Afro-Proxemics Meets Western Polemics at the Border of the Suburb 382Jim Perkinson23 Iterative Hesitancies and Latinidad: The Reverberances of Raciality 400Bernadette Marie Calafell and Shane T. Moreman24 We Got Game: Race, Masculinity, and Civilization in Professional Team Sport 417Lisa A. Flores, Karen Lee Ashcraft and Tracy Marafi ote25 It Really Isn’t About You: Whiteness and the Dangers of Thinking You Got It 446John T. Warren26 Critical Refl ections on a Pedagogy of Ability 461Deanna L. Fassett27 The Scarlet Letter, Vigilantism, and the Politics of Sadism 47Richard Morris28 Authenticity and Identity in the Portable Homeland 483Victoria Chen29 Layers of Nikkei: Japanese Diaspora and World War II 495Etsuko Kinefuchi30 Placing South Asian Digital Diasporas in Second Life 517Radhika Gajjala31 “The Creed of the White Kid”: A Diss-apology 534Melissa Steyn32 A Critical Refl ection on an Intercultural Communication Workshop: Mexicans and Taiwanese Working on the US-Mexico Border 549Hsin-I Cheng33 “Quit Whining and Tell Me About Your Experiences!”: (In)Tolerance, Pragmatism, and Muting in Intergroup Dialogue 565Sara DeTurk34 A Proposal for Concerted Collaboration between Critical Scholars of Intercultural and Organizational Communication 585Brenda J. AllenPart IV Critical Visions of Intercultural Communication Studies 59335 Conclusion: Envisioning the Pathway(s) of Critical Intercultural Communication Studies 595Thomas K. Nakayama and Rona Tamiko HalualaniIndex 601