African American Communication & Identities: Essential Readings Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Toward Long Overdue Recognition of Research Concerning African American Communication and Identities
Pt. I	Theoretic Approaches to African American Communication and Identity	1
1.1	How I Got Over: Communication Dynamics in the Black Community	3
1.2	The Afrocentric Idea	16
1.3	Complicity: The Theory of Negative Difference	29
1.4	Black Kinesics: Some Nonverbal Communication Patterns in the Black Culture	39
1.5	Improvisation as a Performance Strategy for African-based Theatre	47
Pt. II	African American Rhetoric, Language, and Identity	61
2.1	A Dilemma of Black Communication Scholars: The Challenge of Finding New Rhetorical Tools	63
2.2	African American Ethos and Hermeneutical Rhetoric: An Exploration of Alain Locke's The New Negro	69
2.3	Playing the Dozens: Folklore as Strategies for Living	80
2.4	Black Street Speech: Its History, Structure and Survival	89
Pt. III	African American Communication in Relational Contexts	103
3.1	An Afro-American Perspective on Interethnic Communication	105
3.2	Interracial Dating: The Implications of Race for Initiating a Romantic Relationship	125
3.3	The Changing Influence of Interpersonal Perceptions on Marital Well-being Among Black and White Couples	137
3.4	"Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord": Participation in African American Churches Among Young African American Men Who Have Sex With Men	147
Pt. IV	Communicating African American Gendered Identities	155
4.1	Multiple Perspectives: African American Women Conceive Their Talk	157
4.2	Crossing Cultural Borders: "Girl" and "Look" as Markers of Identity in Black Women's Language Use	165
4.3	"That Was My Occupation": Oral Narrative, Performance, and Black Feminist Thought	175
4.4	Interrogating the Representation of African American Female Identity in the Films Waiting to Exhale and Set It Off	189
4.5	Defining Black Masculinity as Cultural Property: Toward an Identity Negotiation Paradigm	197
Pt. V	African American Communication and Identity in Organizational and Instructional Contexts	209
5.1	"Diversity" and Organizational Communication	211
5.2	African American Women Executives' Leadership Communication Within Dominant-culture Organizations	219
5.3	Student Perceptions of the Influence of Race on Professor Credibility	237
5.4	Exploring African American Identity Negotiation in the Academy: Toward a Transformative Vision of African American Communication Scholarship	249
Pt. VI	African American Identities in Mass Mediated Contexts	261
6.1	The Changing Image of the African American Family on Television	263
6.2	Jammin' on the One! Some Reflections on the Politics of Black Popular Culture	271
6.3	Black Beginnings: From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Birth of a Nation	281
6.4	Black Talk Radio: Defining Community Needs and Identity	291
	Notes and References	305
	Index	339
	About the Editor	345
	About the Authors	347