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Papers by Dreama Moon

Communication and Critical/cultural Studies, Sep 1, 2006

... of history, rosy pictures of the contemporary culture complete with new non-racial actors, an... more ... of history, rosy pictures of the contemporary culture complete with new non-racial actors, and concerns regarding government's myopic attention to ... As we note above, colorblind rhetoric has permeated much popular discussion of race and has become, as Goldberg argues, “the ...

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2021

ABSTRACT To examine events leading up to and occurring in 2020, we adopt vision, along with refra... more ABSTRACT To examine events leading up to and occurring in 2020, we adopt vision, along with refractive diseases and disorders, as a metaphorical framework. Heuristically, a vision metaphor enables us to make sense of and assess acute events that marked the election season through obstructions that impinge on vision. We identify competing visions of America/Amerikkka, which facilitate explicating the nation’s vision and national vision.

Introduction - A Politic of Disruption: Race(ing) Intercultural Communication Dreama G. Moon and ... more Introduction - A Politic of Disruption: Race(ing) Intercultural Communication Dreama G. Moon and Michelle A. Holling 1. The Rhetorics of Racial Power: Enforcing Colorblindness in Post-Apartheid Scholarship on Race Marzia Milazzo 2. Queer Intercultural Relationality: An Autoethnography of Asian-Black (Dis)Connections in White Gay America Shinsuke Eguchi 3. The Construction of Brownness: Latino/a and South Asian Bloggers' Responses to SB 1070 Anjana Mudambi 4. Resisting Whiteness: Mexican American Studies and Rhetorical Struggles for Visibility Chad M. Nelson 5. Our Foreign President Barack Obama: The Racial Logics of Birther Discourses Vincent N. Pham 6. New Media, Old Racisms: Twitter, Miss America, and Cultural Logics of Race J. David Cisneros and Thomas K. Nakayama 7. (Net)roots of Belonging: Contemporary Discourses of (In)valuability and Post-Racial Citizenship in the United States Megan Elizabeth Morrissey 8. Problematic Representations of Strategic Whiteness and "Post-racial" Pedagogy: A Critical Intercultural Reading of "The Help" Rachel Alicia Griffin 9. "My Family Isn't Racist-However...": Multiracial/Multicultural Obama-ism as an Ideological Barrier to Teaching Intercultural Communication Yea-Wen Chen, Nathaniel Simmons & Dongjing Kang Conclusion - Continuing a Politic of Disruption: Race(ing) Intercultural Communication Michelle A. Holling and Dreama G. Moon

Interrogating the Communicative Power of Whiteness, 2018

Western Journal of Communication, 2016

Communication studies of White enculturation practices are almost nonexistent despite the central... more Communication studies of White enculturation practices are almost nonexistent despite the centrality of discursive fields in building Whiteness as an embodied way of life. The process of becoming White is investigated via exploration of racial enculturation practices. Data are 124 racial epiphany stories of Whites responding to the question: “When was the first time you became aware that you had a race and what that meant?” Two themes emerged: Performances of Whiteness by Family/Friends and Public Performances of White Privilege.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intercultural Competence

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2015

In the brief period since we wrote the introduction to the first special issue, we lament the dea... more In the brief period since we wrote the introduction to the first special issue, we lament the deaths of more young Black men at the hands of law enforcement in the U.S.; the shootings of two police officers in New York, the massacre of women and children by Boko Haram in Baga, Nigeria that fails to garner media attention; and the terrorist attacks in Paris. Likely the list of events implicating and tied to race across the globe is longer. Even so, we offer such examples as a reminder that race is and remains salient in the new year. Race is salient in the stories reported (or neglected) by international and domestic media outlets to global publics. Despite public discourse that suggest racism is over, a recent poll reveals that 58% of whites and 63% of Blacks each view race relations as “very bad.” These statistics are noteworthy as they serve as additional evidence of, if not play a role in disrupting, the farcical nature of a postracial society. Complementing the above are the five essays closing this second special issue on race. Before delving into those essays, we refresh readers’ understandings of what we mean by a politic of disruption. “Politic” underscores scholars’ balance of politics and shrewdness necessary to apprehend the connections between race and intercultural communication whereas “disruption” points to a disturbance in the norm(al) (Moon & Holling, 2015). The final set of essays continue the work of race(ing) intercultural communication—an impetus behind a politic of disruption. The essays enact a politic of disruption by revealing the subtle (and, perhaps not so subtle) ways that race and racism inflect various discourses that permeate websites, web based campaigns, social media sites such as Twitter, popular films, and classroom spaces. What unites these five essays is how they expose the presence of post-racialism and colorblindness in discourses that ultimately shape, preclude or inhibit intercultural possibilities. For instance, some authors identify the machinations of racial logics and ideology (e.g., “new racism,” “Birther logics,” and “multicultural/multiracial Obama-ism”). Other authors expose the ways that whiteness surfaces in narratives produced by dispossessed and excluded subjects that undercut prospects for cross racial-ethnic identifications and conversely, in the processes by which film facilitates social desires

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2015

Attention to the absences in the development of the field [of intercultural communication] can be... more Attention to the absences in the development of the field [of intercultural communication] can be disruptive. (Nakayama & Martin, 2007, p. 113) We must examine and attend to the specifics of race, as it emerges in concrete conflicts and practices, communities and cultures if we are to uncover the mechanisms that sustain its logic. (Flores, Moon, & Nakayama, 2006, p. 184

Nakayama/The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication, 2011

Background: It is increasingly acknowledged that technical expertise is not sufficient for engine... more Background: It is increasingly acknowledged that technical expertise is not sufficient for engineers today, given the complex intercultural global contexts in which they are required to work. This article, therefore, examines how the concept of culture is typically operationalized in engineering education and discusses possible reasons for this approach. Purpose/Hypothesis: The specific research question explored here is "How is culture conceptualized in engineering education?" Design/Method: To examine this previously unasked question, a mixed-methods methodology was developed, one that uses both quantitative and qualitative tools. More specifically, a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of relevant engineering education articles published in leading academic journals between 2000 and 2015 was combined with a close reading of each and a critical discussion of two representative articles. Results: Our findings reveal that, first, intercultural communication has not received the attention it deserves, given the multidisciplinary, diverse, global nature of the engineering profession. Furthermore, when intercultural concerns are discussed, the predominant approach is essentialist, meaning that culture is regarded as given (rather than constructed), framed in terms of differences between nations and potentially offering a causal explanation for individual behavior. This approach has been criticized for reinforcing stereotypical thinking and offering simplistic answers to complex problems. Conclusions: We conclude by exploring reasons for the relatively widespread acceptance of the "culture-as-given" approach in engineering education, then by urging educators to adopt a "small culture" approach for constructing culture in engineering, and finally by suggesting alternative ways for developing intercultural communicative competence.

Encyclopedia of Communication Theory

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2014

In theorizing the dialectic of public acts of white racial offenses and the in/sufficiency of apo... more In theorizing the dialectic of public acts of white racial offenses and the in/sufficiency of apologia associated with white racial discourse, we examine racist violations and racializing apologia from 24 white public figures in the United States between 1996 and 2012. Analysis of racist violations reveals that each offense undermines race as a social and political marker, whereas racializing apologia makes explicit the constant force of racialization and latent nature of whiteness in apologia strategies. We view racializing apologia as potentially liberatory, capable of allowing for a defense of oneself and challenging reproduction of racial formations.

Western Journal of Communication, 2002

Questions of race, racism, and essentialism continue to garner academic and public attention, oft... more Questions of race, racism, and essentialism continue to garner academic and public attention, often provoking debates about how to rethink and/or eliminate race and produce new identities separate from race and racial categories. In this essay, we explore one racial discourse, a contemporary project titled Race Traitor, that seeks to destroy whiteness and replace it with race treason. Drawing on

Substance Use & Misuse, 1999

This paper examines the relationship among ethnicity, gender, drug use, and resistance to drug of... more This paper examines the relationship among ethnicity, gender, drug use, and resistance to drug offers among a sample of 2,622 African American, Mexican American, and White American seventh graders. A number of similarities were noted. First, these adolescents did not seem to possess large or sophisticated repertoires of offer resistance strategies. Second, most offers came from acquaintances in contrast to more intimate offers among older youths. Ethnic and gender differences were also noted. Ethnicity had significant effects on use and the offer process. Mexican Americans received more offers, used more drugs, and were more likely to be offered drugs by peer family members and at parties. European Americans were more likely to receive drug offers from acquaintances and at friends' homes and on the street. African Americans were more likely to receive offers from dating partners and parents, and in the park, and were more likely to resist offers of drugs-using explanations. Gender significantly affected drug offers and types of offers. Males were more at risk for offers and use at a younger age. Offers of drugs to males were more likely to come from parents or other males, while offers to females were more likely to come from other females or dating partners. Males also were more likely to receive drug offers that appeal to their social standing or self-image while females received either simple offers or those that minimize effects. Finally, offers of drugs to males were more likely to be made in public, while those to females were more likely to occur in private. Cultural explanations are offered for these findings.

Journal of Drug Education, 2000

Recent approaches to drug prevention have emphasized risk and resiliency factors. Two models have... more Recent approaches to drug prevention have emphasized risk and resiliency factors. Two models have been developed to explain these factors, one which posits that separate elements make up each set and the other which posits that a single factor can be either a risk or a resiliency factor depending on, for example, if it is present (resiliency) or absent (risk). This study tested these models and attempted to compare the effects of risk and resiliency across gender and ethnicity. Results support the model in which risk and resiliency are discrete sets of factors and demonstrate that overall resiliency factors play a larger role than risk factors in substance use and drug resistance processes. However, gender proved to be an important moderator of these effects. For adolescent males, resiliency has an indirect effect on overall substance use through age of first use, while risk has a direct effect on overall substance use. For adolescent females, resiliency has a direct effect on overa...

Howard Journal of Communications, 2005

Communication Studies, 2000

... D., University of Georgia) is Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Ethnic Stu... more ... D., University of Georgia) is Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Ethnic Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (lisa.flores@mm ... perhaps do more for the cause [abolition] than our lives could be worth in any other way" (as cited in Karcher, 1993, p ...

Communication Quarterly, 1996

... EJ542452 - Concepts of "Culture": Implications for Intercultural Communication Rese... more ... EJ542452 - Concepts of "Culture": Implications for Intercultural Communication Research. ... Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. ERIC #: EJ542452. Title: Concepts of "Culture": Implications for Intercultural Communication Research. Authors: Moon, Dreama G. ...

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2006

... of history, rosy pictures of the contemporary culture complete with new non-racial actors, an... more ... of history, rosy pictures of the contemporary culture complete with new non-racial actors, and concerns regarding government's myopic attention to ... As we note above, colorblind rhetoric has permeated much popular discussion of race and has become, as Goldberg argues, “the ...

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

ABSTRACT As a progressive intervention into patriarchy, feminism has traditionally centered (whit... more ABSTRACT As a progressive intervention into patriarchy, feminism has traditionally centered (white) women's experience, yet when sex and gender are combined with race, feminism tends to lose its progressive edge. We argue that (white) feminism ideologically grounds itself in a gendered victimology that masks its participation and functionality in white supremacy. By erasing women of color, positioning women as victims of white male hegemony, and failing to hold white women accountable for the production and reproduction of white supremacy, (white) feminism manifests its allegiance to whiteness and in doing so commits “discursive violence”. We end with calling for ideological intersectionality as a possible corrective.

Communication and Critical/cultural Studies, Sep 1, 2006

... of history, rosy pictures of the contemporary culture complete with new non-racial actors, an... more ... of history, rosy pictures of the contemporary culture complete with new non-racial actors, and concerns regarding government's myopic attention to ... As we note above, colorblind rhetoric has permeated much popular discussion of race and has become, as Goldberg argues, “the ...

Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2021

ABSTRACT To examine events leading up to and occurring in 2020, we adopt vision, along with refra... more ABSTRACT To examine events leading up to and occurring in 2020, we adopt vision, along with refractive diseases and disorders, as a metaphorical framework. Heuristically, a vision metaphor enables us to make sense of and assess acute events that marked the election season through obstructions that impinge on vision. We identify competing visions of America/Amerikkka, which facilitate explicating the nation’s vision and national vision.

Introduction - A Politic of Disruption: Race(ing) Intercultural Communication Dreama G. Moon and ... more Introduction - A Politic of Disruption: Race(ing) Intercultural Communication Dreama G. Moon and Michelle A. Holling 1. The Rhetorics of Racial Power: Enforcing Colorblindness in Post-Apartheid Scholarship on Race Marzia Milazzo 2. Queer Intercultural Relationality: An Autoethnography of Asian-Black (Dis)Connections in White Gay America Shinsuke Eguchi 3. The Construction of Brownness: Latino/a and South Asian Bloggers' Responses to SB 1070 Anjana Mudambi 4. Resisting Whiteness: Mexican American Studies and Rhetorical Struggles for Visibility Chad M. Nelson 5. Our Foreign President Barack Obama: The Racial Logics of Birther Discourses Vincent N. Pham 6. New Media, Old Racisms: Twitter, Miss America, and Cultural Logics of Race J. David Cisneros and Thomas K. Nakayama 7. (Net)roots of Belonging: Contemporary Discourses of (In)valuability and Post-Racial Citizenship in the United States Megan Elizabeth Morrissey 8. Problematic Representations of Strategic Whiteness and "Post-racial" Pedagogy: A Critical Intercultural Reading of "The Help" Rachel Alicia Griffin 9. "My Family Isn't Racist-However...": Multiracial/Multicultural Obama-ism as an Ideological Barrier to Teaching Intercultural Communication Yea-Wen Chen, Nathaniel Simmons & Dongjing Kang Conclusion - Continuing a Politic of Disruption: Race(ing) Intercultural Communication Michelle A. Holling and Dreama G. Moon

Interrogating the Communicative Power of Whiteness, 2018

Western Journal of Communication, 2016

Communication studies of White enculturation practices are almost nonexistent despite the central... more Communication studies of White enculturation practices are almost nonexistent despite the centrality of discursive fields in building Whiteness as an embodied way of life. The process of becoming White is investigated via exploration of racial enculturation practices. Data are 124 racial epiphany stories of Whites responding to the question: “When was the first time you became aware that you had a race and what that meant?” Two themes emerged: Performances of Whiteness by Family/Friends and Public Performances of White Privilege.

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intercultural Competence

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2015

In the brief period since we wrote the introduction to the first special issue, we lament the dea... more In the brief period since we wrote the introduction to the first special issue, we lament the deaths of more young Black men at the hands of law enforcement in the U.S.; the shootings of two police officers in New York, the massacre of women and children by Boko Haram in Baga, Nigeria that fails to garner media attention; and the terrorist attacks in Paris. Likely the list of events implicating and tied to race across the globe is longer. Even so, we offer such examples as a reminder that race is and remains salient in the new year. Race is salient in the stories reported (or neglected) by international and domestic media outlets to global publics. Despite public discourse that suggest racism is over, a recent poll reveals that 58% of whites and 63% of Blacks each view race relations as “very bad.” These statistics are noteworthy as they serve as additional evidence of, if not play a role in disrupting, the farcical nature of a postracial society. Complementing the above are the five essays closing this second special issue on race. Before delving into those essays, we refresh readers’ understandings of what we mean by a politic of disruption. “Politic” underscores scholars’ balance of politics and shrewdness necessary to apprehend the connections between race and intercultural communication whereas “disruption” points to a disturbance in the norm(al) (Moon & Holling, 2015). The final set of essays continue the work of race(ing) intercultural communication—an impetus behind a politic of disruption. The essays enact a politic of disruption by revealing the subtle (and, perhaps not so subtle) ways that race and racism inflect various discourses that permeate websites, web based campaigns, social media sites such as Twitter, popular films, and classroom spaces. What unites these five essays is how they expose the presence of post-racialism and colorblindness in discourses that ultimately shape, preclude or inhibit intercultural possibilities. For instance, some authors identify the machinations of racial logics and ideology (e.g., “new racism,” “Birther logics,” and “multicultural/multiracial Obama-ism”). Other authors expose the ways that whiteness surfaces in narratives produced by dispossessed and excluded subjects that undercut prospects for cross racial-ethnic identifications and conversely, in the processes by which film facilitates social desires

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2015

Attention to the absences in the development of the field [of intercultural communication] can be... more Attention to the absences in the development of the field [of intercultural communication] can be disruptive. (Nakayama & Martin, 2007, p. 113) We must examine and attend to the specifics of race, as it emerges in concrete conflicts and practices, communities and cultures if we are to uncover the mechanisms that sustain its logic. (Flores, Moon, & Nakayama, 2006, p. 184

Nakayama/The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication, 2011

Background: It is increasingly acknowledged that technical expertise is not sufficient for engine... more Background: It is increasingly acknowledged that technical expertise is not sufficient for engineers today, given the complex intercultural global contexts in which they are required to work. This article, therefore, examines how the concept of culture is typically operationalized in engineering education and discusses possible reasons for this approach. Purpose/Hypothesis: The specific research question explored here is "How is culture conceptualized in engineering education?" Design/Method: To examine this previously unasked question, a mixed-methods methodology was developed, one that uses both quantitative and qualitative tools. More specifically, a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of relevant engineering education articles published in leading academic journals between 2000 and 2015 was combined with a close reading of each and a critical discussion of two representative articles. Results: Our findings reveal that, first, intercultural communication has not received the attention it deserves, given the multidisciplinary, diverse, global nature of the engineering profession. Furthermore, when intercultural concerns are discussed, the predominant approach is essentialist, meaning that culture is regarded as given (rather than constructed), framed in terms of differences between nations and potentially offering a causal explanation for individual behavior. This approach has been criticized for reinforcing stereotypical thinking and offering simplistic answers to complex problems. Conclusions: We conclude by exploring reasons for the relatively widespread acceptance of the "culture-as-given" approach in engineering education, then by urging educators to adopt a "small culture" approach for constructing culture in engineering, and finally by suggesting alternative ways for developing intercultural communicative competence.

Encyclopedia of Communication Theory

Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 2014

In theorizing the dialectic of public acts of white racial offenses and the in/sufficiency of apo... more In theorizing the dialectic of public acts of white racial offenses and the in/sufficiency of apologia associated with white racial discourse, we examine racist violations and racializing apologia from 24 white public figures in the United States between 1996 and 2012. Analysis of racist violations reveals that each offense undermines race as a social and political marker, whereas racializing apologia makes explicit the constant force of racialization and latent nature of whiteness in apologia strategies. We view racializing apologia as potentially liberatory, capable of allowing for a defense of oneself and challenging reproduction of racial formations.

Western Journal of Communication, 2002

Questions of race, racism, and essentialism continue to garner academic and public attention, oft... more Questions of race, racism, and essentialism continue to garner academic and public attention, often provoking debates about how to rethink and/or eliminate race and produce new identities separate from race and racial categories. In this essay, we explore one racial discourse, a contemporary project titled Race Traitor, that seeks to destroy whiteness and replace it with race treason. Drawing on

Substance Use & Misuse, 1999

This paper examines the relationship among ethnicity, gender, drug use, and resistance to drug of... more This paper examines the relationship among ethnicity, gender, drug use, and resistance to drug offers among a sample of 2,622 African American, Mexican American, and White American seventh graders. A number of similarities were noted. First, these adolescents did not seem to possess large or sophisticated repertoires of offer resistance strategies. Second, most offers came from acquaintances in contrast to more intimate offers among older youths. Ethnic and gender differences were also noted. Ethnicity had significant effects on use and the offer process. Mexican Americans received more offers, used more drugs, and were more likely to be offered drugs by peer family members and at parties. European Americans were more likely to receive drug offers from acquaintances and at friends' homes and on the street. African Americans were more likely to receive offers from dating partners and parents, and in the park, and were more likely to resist offers of drugs-using explanations. Gender significantly affected drug offers and types of offers. Males were more at risk for offers and use at a younger age. Offers of drugs to males were more likely to come from parents or other males, while offers to females were more likely to come from other females or dating partners. Males also were more likely to receive drug offers that appeal to their social standing or self-image while females received either simple offers or those that minimize effects. Finally, offers of drugs to males were more likely to be made in public, while those to females were more likely to occur in private. Cultural explanations are offered for these findings.

Journal of Drug Education, 2000

Recent approaches to drug prevention have emphasized risk and resiliency factors. Two models have... more Recent approaches to drug prevention have emphasized risk and resiliency factors. Two models have been developed to explain these factors, one which posits that separate elements make up each set and the other which posits that a single factor can be either a risk or a resiliency factor depending on, for example, if it is present (resiliency) or absent (risk). This study tested these models and attempted to compare the effects of risk and resiliency across gender and ethnicity. Results support the model in which risk and resiliency are discrete sets of factors and demonstrate that overall resiliency factors play a larger role than risk factors in substance use and drug resistance processes. However, gender proved to be an important moderator of these effects. For adolescent males, resiliency has an indirect effect on overall substance use through age of first use, while risk has a direct effect on overall substance use. For adolescent females, resiliency has a direct effect on overa...

Howard Journal of Communications, 2005

Communication Studies, 2000

... D., University of Georgia) is Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Ethnic Stu... more ... D., University of Georgia) is Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Ethnic Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 (lisa.flores@mm ... perhaps do more for the cause [abolition] than our lives could be worth in any other way" (as cited in Karcher, 1993, p ...

Communication Quarterly, 1996

... EJ542452 - Concepts of "Culture": Implications for Intercultural Communication Rese... more ... EJ542452 - Concepts of "Culture": Implications for Intercultural Communication Research. ... Click on any of the links below to perform a new search. ERIC #: EJ542452. Title: Concepts of "Culture": Implications for Intercultural Communication Research. Authors: Moon, Dreama G. ...

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 2006

... of history, rosy pictures of the contemporary culture complete with new non-racial actors, an... more ... of history, rosy pictures of the contemporary culture complete with new non-racial actors, and concerns regarding government's myopic attention to ... As we note above, colorblind rhetoric has permeated much popular discussion of race and has become, as Goldberg argues, “the ...

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

ABSTRACT As a progressive intervention into patriarchy, feminism has traditionally centered (whit... more ABSTRACT As a progressive intervention into patriarchy, feminism has traditionally centered (white) women's experience, yet when sex and gender are combined with race, feminism tends to lose its progressive edge. We argue that (white) feminism ideologically grounds itself in a gendered victimology that masks its participation and functionality in white supremacy. By erasing women of color, positioning women as victims of white male hegemony, and failing to hold white women accountable for the production and reproduction of white supremacy, (white) feminism manifests its allegiance to whiteness and in doing so commits “discursive violence”. We end with calling for ideological intersectionality as a possible corrective.