Introduction. Zhao Ding and Kamela Rasmussen. Introduction. Crazy sexy Asian men! Masculinities in Crazy Rich Asians / Bernadette Marie Calafell, Shinsuke Eguchi, and Shadee Abdi -- Intersectionalities in the fields of Chicana feminism: pursuing decolonization through Xicanisma's 'Resurrection of the dreamers' / Michelle A. Holling -- Lethal intersections and "Chicana badgirls" / Jaelyn deMaría -- Black feminist thought, intersectionality, and intercultural communication / Aisha Durham -- Intersectional assemblages of whiteness: the case of Rachel Dolezal / Dawn Marie D. McIntosh -- Doing intersectionality under a different name: the (un)intentional politics of refusal / Santhosh Chandrashekar -- Making it real plain: ruminations on de-whitening intersectionality in academia from the monstrous queer Chicana who makes white straight people uncomfortable / Bernadette Marie Calafell -- A local gay man/Tongzhi or a transnational queer/qu-er/kuer: (re)organizing my queerness and Asianness through personal reflection / Andy Kai-chun Chuang -- What are you? Embodying and storying categorical (un)certainty / Benny LeMaster, Amber Johnson, and Miranda Olzman -- Bodies that collide: feeling intersectionality / Sachi Sekimoto, Christopher Brown, and Justin Rudnick -- Microaggressions in flux: whiteness, disability, and masculinity in academia / Haneen Ghabra and Shahd Al Shammari -- Remembering Julia de Burgos: faithful witnessing as decolonial feminist performance / Sara Baugh-Harris -- De-whitening intersectionality through Transfeminismo / Raquel Moreira -- Dark looks: sensory contours of racism in India / Pavithra Prasad and Anjana Raghavan -- "We had to sink or swim": privileging and intersectionalizing racialized ethnic identifications among Asians and Asian Americans / Yea-Wen Chen -- Crazy sexy Asian men! Masculinities in Crazy Rich Asians / Zhao Ding and Kamela Rasmussen.
Summary:
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 recentering of difference by exploring the emergence and inception of intersectionality concepts, the editors and contributors distinguish between the uses of intersectionality that seem inclusive versus those that actually enact inclusion by demonstrating how to reconceptualize 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. Intersectionality is a feminist-of-color tradition that 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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.