The Negotiation of Cultural Identity: Perceptions of European Americans and African Americans

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Whiteness is often looked upon and equated with being American, but this book seeks to discover how other American voices and experiences have been and are excluded from the American legacy. It directly addresses the notion of self and human division in a cultural climate that has historically fostered the marginalization of multiple racial identities. This is an interdisciplinary work on understanding and promoting intercultural communication and will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of communication, multicultural studies, social psychology, and sociology.

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Jackson does an excellent job of providing a historical overview of issues of identity, race, ethnicity, and culture in several disciplines. He clearly identifies the issues and research questions as well as his answers to those questions. This work contributes to current approaches to identity research by tackling a challenging task in the use of triangulation, which is often called for in our research but seldom used.-Communication Theory
"Jackson does an excellent job of providing a historical overview of issues of identity, race, ethnicity, and culture in several disciplines. He clearly identifies the issues and research questions as well as his answers to those questions. This work contributes to current approaches to identity research by tackling a challenging task in the use of triangulation, which is often called for in our research but seldom used."-Communication Theory

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RONALD L. JACKSON, II is Assistant Professor of Speech and Communication Theory at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania. /e