Communication Arts: Faculty Publications
Introduction to Special Issue on Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2019
Publication Title
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
DOI
10.1525/dcqr.2019.8.4.3
Abstract
Hegemons arise by smashing and terrorizing human diversity. They do so structurally, institutionally, and discursively-that is, through logics, rationales, and schemes. In this special issue, we grapple with the racism problem that pervades communication studies. In fact, the discipline has long had a racism problem, silenced by overarching structures that deploy the language of civility to erase conversations that call out this problem. This special issue, "Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege,"focuses on the racial, ideological, and epistemological logics, rationales, and schemes, such as falsely separating scholarly merit from diversity, that the status quo in communication studies employs to keep minority peoples marginalized. We contend that looking at the racism problem that pervades communication studies from a perspective of whiteness deepens our understanding of this problem in profound ways.
Recommended Citation
Rodriguez, Amardo, Mohan J. Dutta, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas.
2019.
"Introduction to Special Issue on Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege."
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 8 (4): 3-9: University of California Press.
doi: 10.1525/dcqr.2019.8.4.3
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/comm-arts-facpubs/94
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Comments
Georgia Southern University faculty member, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas co-authored, "Introduction to Special Issue on Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege."