Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication

<p>Race and ethnicity are increasingly central to our lived experiences of politics yet they are often absent from studies of urgent questions in contemporary political communication. This volume responds to this crucial issue in the field illuminating a multitude of ways that identity and power shape the interpersonal mediated and technological dimensions of politics. The book empirically illustrates the lack of race-focused scholarship in this area while demonstrating how studying race/ethnicity as endogenous to politics sheds new light on the “big questions” facing multiracial multiethnic societies.</p><p>Contributions address both heavily studied topics (e.g. misinformation political trust) as well as topics that emerge through a centering of race/ethnicity (e.g. Hispandering politically relevant entertainment media). They do so through diverse methodologies (e.g. ethnography computational text analysis) and communities (e.g. Black & Hispanic Americans the Vietnamese diaspora). Collectively this scholarship aims to catalyze challenging conversations about how race and ethnicity can and should be integrated into the core of global political communication scholarship.</p><p>A groundbreaking contribution to the field of political communication <i>Race and Ethnicity as Foundational Forces in Political Communication</i> will be a key resource academics researchers and advanced students of communication studies politics media studies and sociology. This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Political Communication</i>. <br> <br> </p>