Bookedited by Shinsuke Eguchi, Bernadette Marie Calafell, and Shadee Abdi.
Summary: De-whitening intersectionality: race, intercultural communication, and politics reevaluates how the logic of color-blindness as whiteness evolves amidst current race and intercultural communication research, underscoring that, in order to play well with intersectionality, research scholars must be attentive to its origins and implications.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction: De-Whitening Intersectionality in Intercultural Communication
SECTION I: THE POLITICS OF THEORIZING
1 Intersectionalities in the Fields of Chicana Feminism: Pursuing Decolonization through Xicanisma's "Resurrection of the Dreamers"
2 Lethal Intersections and "Chicana Badgirls"
3 Black Feminist Thought, Intersectionality, and Intercultural Communication
4 Intersectional Assemblages of Whiteness: The Case of Rachel Dolezal 5 Doing Intersectionality under a Different Name: The (Un)intentional Politics of Refusal
SECTION II: PERSONAL NARRATIVES
6 Making it Real PlainRuminations on De-Whitening Intersectionality in Academia From the Monstrous Queer Chicana Who Makes White Straight People Uncomfortable
7 A Local Gay Man/Tongzhi or A Transnational Queer/Qu-er/Kuer: (Re)organizing My Queerness and Asianness through Personal Reflection
8 What Are you?: Embodying and Storying Categorical (Un)certainty
9 Bodies that Collide: Feeling Intersectionality 10 Microaggressions in Flux: Whiteness, Disability, and Masculinity in Academia
SECTION III: TRANSNATIONAL CIRCUMFERENCES
11 Remembering Julia de Burgos: Faithful Witnessing as Decolonial Feminist Performance
12 De-Whitening Intersectionality through Transfeminismo
13 Dark Looks: Sensory Contours of Racism in India
14 "We Had to Sink or Swim": Privileging and Intersectionalizing Racialized Ethnic Identifications among Asians and Asian Americans
15 Crazy Sexy Asian Men!: Masculinities in Crazy Rich Asians
Index
About the Editors
About the Contributors