Communication and Identity in the Classroom: Intersectional Perspectives of Critical Pedagogy

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This collection, edited by Daniel S. Strasser, was unearthed from the demand for more inclusive and expansive dialogues on intersectional identities, ethnicity, neuro-diversity, physical ability, religion, sexual orientation, class, and gender performance in academia. The autoethnographic and narrative accounts within Communication and Identity in the Classroom: Intersectional Perspectives of Critical Pedagogy offer personal, experiential perspectives on the power of identity to influence educators in classroom and mentoring spaces. The multiple perspectives offered here promote dialogue about how personal experience provides the ground upon which we build more dynamic relationships and communities. The contributors experiences offer examples for a more expansive understanding of privilege, oppression, and identity. These seeds for conversation nourish discourses that build new communicative bridges between educators and students as we prepare to face the next interaction, class, and challenges and opportunity for resilience. This collection invites educators to be critical of their bodies, of their politics, of their intersecting identities, and acknowledge in words and actions that our bodies are political. Throughout this collection the contributors expand upon theories and methods of critical communication scholarship, radical love, and intersectionality using their embodied pedagogical experiences to ground the scholarship.

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Communication and Identity in the Classroom: Intersectional Perspectives of Critical Pedagogy is an important edited book that centralizes intersectional perspectives on communication education. It not only locates critical issues in differences such as race, gender, sexuality, queerness, class, and the body; but it also brings forth diverse sets of conceptual and methodological orientations to critical pedagogy. This book is meant to open up more space to (re)consider communication issues in the classroom more now than ever.

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Daniel S. Strasser is associate professor of gender and family communication at Rowan University.