Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity

Mary Fong is associate professor of communication studies at California State University, San Bernardino. Rueyling Chuang is assistant professor of communication studies at California State University, San Bernardino.

• Chapter 1 PrefacePart 2 Part I Introduction to Ethnic and Cultural IdentityChapter 3 1 Identity and the Speech CommunityChapter 4 2 Multiple Dimensions of IdentityChapter 5 3 Ethnic and Cultural Identity: Distinguishing FeaturesChapter 7 4 Theoretical Perspectives: Fluidity and Complexity of Cultural and Ethnic IdentityPart 8 Part II Artifacts and Cultural IdentityChapter 8 5 Approaches to Cultural Identity: Personal Notes from an Autoethnographical JourneyChapter 9 6 Grandma's Photo Album: Clothing as Symbolic Representations of IdentityChapter 11 7 She Speaks to Us, for Us, and of Us: Our Lady of Guadalupe as a Semiotic Site of Struggle and IdentityChapter 12 9 Intercultural Weddings and Simultaneous Display of Multiple IdentitiesChapter 12 8 Memory, Cinema, and the Reconstitution of Cultural Identities in the Asian Indian DiasporaPart 13 Part III Language, Terms, and IdentityChapter 15 11 Cultural and Intercultural Speech Uses and Meanings of the Term NiggaChapter 15 10 Pahiwatig: The Role of 'Ambiguity' in Filipino American Communication PatternsChapter 16 12 Lesbian History and Politics of IdentitiesChapter 17 13 The Chicken Haulers and the High Liners: CB Talk among Interstate TruckersPart 18 Part IV Cultural Communities and Social IdentitiesChapter 20 14 Tighten Me Up: Reflecting and Maintaining Ethnic Identity through Daily Interactions in an African American-Owned Beauty SalonChapter 21 15 Communicating a Latina Identity: Becoming Different, Doing Difference, and Being DifferentChapter 22 16 Communicating Deadhead Identity: Exploring Identity from a Cultural Communication PerspectiveChapter 23 18 Building a Shared Future Across the Divide: Identity and Conflict in CyprusChapter 23 17 I Want You to Talk for Me: An Ethnography of Communication of the Osage IndianPart 24 Part V Negotiating Cultural Identities and the Sense of BelongingChapter 26 19 'Where I Come From is Where I Want to Be': Communicating Franco American EthnicityChapter 27 20 Negotiating Cultural Identity: Strategies for BelongingChapter 28 21 Negotiating Cultural Identity in the ClassroomChapter 29 22 'Perpetual Foreigner': In Search of Asian Americans' Identity and OthernessPart 30 Part VI Autoethnographies: Developing and Transforming Ethnic and Cultural IdentitiesChapter 32 23 Personal Journey: My Struggle between Cambodian and Chinese IdentitiesChapter 33 24 A Little Bit Black—But Not All the WayPart 35 Index

This book makes an important contribution to the growing literature on communication and cultural identity. I appreciate the range of theoretical frameworks and the many sites where identity is performed in particular ways. The collection demonstrates methodological diversity and a strong sense of how identity is both a cultural and a personal journey.