Intercultural Communication

Intercultural Communication examines culture as a variable in interpersonal and collective communication. It explores the opportunities and problems arising from similarities and differences in communication patterns, processes, and codes among various cultural groups. It explores cultural universals, social categorization, stereotyping and discrimination, with a focus on topics including race, ethnicity, social class, religion, gender and sexuality as they relate to communication

Spanglish as a Learning Tool

This essay will review Spanglish scholarship, its different geographic locations, and various academic discourses surrounding the breadth and possibility of its application in undergraduate course instruction. Spanglish intervenes and influences Latinx communities’ lifestyles and choices outside the academic sphere of theory and concept. How citizenship, social status, race, ethnicity, politics, and power of language can be examined through the framework and pedagogical tool of Spanglish. I will identify and address the barriers that gender, race, ability, sexuality, ethnicity, and otherness may produce. Students’ diverse backgrounds in higher education classrooms allow for communication and understanding through lenses that their fellow peers may have never experienced. I argue that Spanglish can be a useful pedagogical tool in multidisciplinary undergraduate courses

Out Online: The Experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth on the Internet

This report examines the online experiences of LGBT students in 6-12th grade. LGBT youth experience nearly three times as much bullying and harassment online as non-LGBT youth, but also find greater peer support, access to health information and opportunities to be civically engaged

Analisis Teori Performance dan Positioning dalam Komunikasi Pembangunan Berwawasan Gender

Formative and positioning theories are the critique of structuralism and critical theory. In the formative perspectiveand gender positioning, there is a consequence of the semiotic practices, as a sign of deviation patterns of adaptationand negotiation position of a subject. Participation of the performance of gender can be done through mimicry andsubversion rhetoric and understanding the intersection of gender with race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, andnationality. According to formative theory, gender or sexuality oppression is more of an ideological oppression andrepresentation. Formative and positioning theories describe the relationship between subjects, discourses, practices,and position. The development of post structuralism theory manifests a constellation of challenges and newmethodologies and adapts into a feminist critique of structuralism with methodological theory and new horizons,especially Post-Structuralism Discourse Analysis (PDA), which is directed at the meso level and the conversationfocused on understanding the structure of actions speaking (words and deeds) which is limited by reference to socialforces. PDA and then developed into a Post-Structuralism Feminist Discourse Analysis (FPDA). Forms ofparticipatory development communication perspective in the perspective of gender performance and positioningtheory state that the concept of empowerment of women in development is more focused on the patterns ofconversation, dialogue and dialectic process that includes grassroots forum for dialogue, a new function ofparticipatory communications on media, knowledge sharing on an equal footing, and Development SupportCommunication Model (DSC)

Parental Engagement

The relationships between youth and parents is a central element in the successful development of healthy teens. In this guide, Healthy Teen Network recognizes the importance of adults in a young person's life and of the need to provide support and skills to these adults. Furthermore, this guide explores the importance of modeling positive adult behavior for youth

Feelings of Belonging: An Exploratory Analysis of the Sociopolitical Involvement of Black, Latina, and Asian/Pacific Islander Sexual Minority Women

This article compares and contrasts the sociopolitical involvement of Black, Latina, and Asian/Pacific Islander American sexual minority women within lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities of color. For the analysis, a sample of over 1,200 women from the Social Justice Sexuality project was analyzed. Findings indicate that, for all groups of women, feelings of connectedness to the LGBT community was the most significant predictor of sociopolitical involvement within LGBT communities of color

What is Colorism?

Analyze any advertising campaign colorism, dark-skinned, skin lightening, skin bleaching or notice the types of people represented in the media and on television and one major conclusion will be made clear -- Colorism is a prevalent issue worldwide. When the complexity of colorism transpires within a race it causes an even greater societal struggle, making it almost impossible to eliminate

Review of Race Scholarship and the War on Terror

The 9/11 terrorist attacks and heavy-handed state and popular response to them stimulated increased scholarship on American Muslims. In the social sciences, this work has focused mainly on Arabs and South Asians, and more recently on African Americans. The majority of this scholarship has not engaged race theory in a comprehensive or intersectional manner. The authors provide an overview of the work on Muslims over the past 15 years and argue that the Muslim experience needs to be situated within race scholarship. The authors further show that September 11 did not create racialized Muslims, Arabs, or South Asians. Rather, the authors highlight a preexisting, racializing war on terror and a more complex history of these groups with race both globally and domestically. Islamophobia is a popular term used to talk about Muslim encounters with discrimination, but the concept lacks a clear understanding of race and structural racism. Newer frameworks have emerged situating Muslim experiences within race scholarship. The authors conclude with a call to scholars to embark on studies that fill major gaps in this emerging field of study—such as intersectional approaches that incorporate gender, communities of belonging, black Muslim experiences, class, and sexuality—and to remain conscious of the global dimensions of this racial project

Lambeth LGBT Matters: The needs and experiences of lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans men and women in Lambeth.

This report presents the findings of a study of the experiences of Lesbians, Gay men, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) men and women who live, work and socialise in Lambeth. It presents the results of part of a larger study which included analysis of Lambeth’s policies and procedures, stakeholder interviews and staff focus groups. The full report can be found at our website. Here, we present the results of a self-completion quantitative survey of LGBT people who live, work or socialise in Lambeth (Chapter 2) and qualitative focus groups/interviews with LGBT residents of Lambeth (Chapter 3). Chapter 4 contains some conclusions and recommendations arising from this research. The study was commissioned by The London Borough of Lambeth (LBL) to provide the Council with information to improve services for these populations. LBL is the largest and possibly most diverse of inner London’s boroughs. Patterns of UK and international migration ensure that the LGBT population in London is far larger than elsewhere in the UK. Using Census (Office for National Statistics 2006) and other data (Mercer et al. 2004) we can estimate that Lambeth’s LGBT resident population is approximately 18-20,000 adults. This figure does not include people who come to Lambeth to work or socialise. Lambeth also hosts a substantial LGBT social and commercial scene with six Gay saunas / gyms, 12 LGBT social support agencies and at least 17 bars, clubs and cafes in the borough. Lambeth also contains several public areas where men meet for sex (parks, commons and public toilets)

Negotiating equity in UK universities.

Description of the project The research involved six case studies of higher education institutions across England, Scotland and Wales. The project aims were:to explore staff experiences of equity issues and institutional equity policies. Participants were drawn from different occupational backgrounds and a variety of socio-cultural groups paying attention also to gender, sexual orientation, ‘race’/ethnicity, disability, age and religio to conduct a critical discourse analysis of equity policies in the six institution to gather the views of senior manager-academics and administrators on their institutional equality policies, and how these relate to national policie to identify challenges, inadequacies, examples of good practice, and constraints/incentives in relation to equity policies at institutional and sector level