Our Voices Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication 6th Edition by Alberto Gonzalez;
By: Alberto Gonzalez; Yea-Wen Chen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Print ISBN: 9780190255237, 0190255234
eText ISBN: 9780190643508, 0190643501
Edition: 6th
Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication examines intercultural communication through an array of cultural and personal perspectives, with each of its contributors writing a first-person account of his or her experiences in the real world. While most readers are collections of scholarly essays that describe intercultural communication, Our Voices presents short, student-oriented readings chosen with an eye toward engaging the reader. Collectively, the readings tackle the key areas of communication-rhetoric, mass communication, and interpersonal communication-using a uniquely expansive and humanist perspective that provides a voice to otherwise marginalized members of society. Praised by students for its abundance of short, first-person narratives, Our Voices traverses topics as diverse as queer identity, racial discourse, and codes of communication in nontraditional families.