This ground-breaking work explores the conceptual contributions of Black scholars to communication studies. It is the only book in the field of communication that, through personal interviews with many of these living pioneers, systematically exploring their lives, careers, and pioneering contributions, which have shaped various contours of humanistic and social scientific inquiry within communication studies and beyond.
Eleven leading scholars are profiled: Molefi Kete Asante, Donald Bogle, Hallie Quinn Brown, Melbourne S. Cummings, Jack Daniel, Oscar H. Gandy, Stuart Hall, Marsha Houston, Joni Jones, Dorthy Pennington, and Orlando Taylor. These pioneers have had an indelible impact on Black Studies, sociology, communication, political science, film studies, rhetoric, sociolinguistics, and cultural studies. This book not only offers a compelling approach to studying theory via examining the personal lives and careers of the theorists, but also presents a penetrating look into the impending circumstances that gave rise to paradigms that have shifted interdisciplinary thought. Some of the concepts covered in this book are afrocentricity, articulation theory, aphasia, oral performance and interpretation, womanism, Black English, Black oral traditions, the TrEE communication development model, chronemics, as well as the mammy, buck, mulatto, coon, and uncle tom images in film and television.

• Essays on specific Black scholars, showing how these people have contributed to the research and development in the various sub-areas within the communication field (e.g., interpersonal; organizational; performance; intercultural; rhetoric; etc.)
• Consistent chapter sections facilitate student understanding:
• Chapter-opening photo of the scholar;
• Biographical Information explores the early childhood and family experiences that shaped the scholar;
• Academic Background and Experience discusses the scholar's approach to and overall interest in education, beginning with elementary school, continuing through college and accounting for how graduate school experience facilitated the growth or hindrance of the scholar's research agenda;
• Contributions to Communication Research summarizes the scholarship for which the pioneer is most well known and provides an opportunity to discuss how the scholar defines him or herself;
• "Life Snapshot" depicts a timeline of the scholar's major research contributions and a "quick glance" at the life of the scholar;
• Selected References lists the key articles and books written
• All the information for the text is based on the authors' interviews with the pioneer for this book (and on extant writings about the pioneer for those no longer living)

• ISBN: 0761929932
• ISBN-13: 9780761929932
• Authors : Ronald Jackson and Sonja M. Brown Givens
• Language : English
• Format:  Paperback
• Publication Date: 1/1/2006
• Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications
• Price ($AUD): $73.95


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