African American Communication & Culture Division

Race, Communication and Mentoring Provisions: Does the Mentor Race Play a Role in the Type of Provision-Related Messages that Black and Latino College Students Report that They Receive in Academe?

The benefits that mentoring relationships provide in different organizational contexts are firmly established. This paper examines the relationship between mentors' race and the type provision-related...

Negotiations of the Complicitous Nature of U.S. Racial/Ethnic Categorization: Exploring unCONVENTIONal Rhetorical Strategies

This analysis explores the multiple ways in which diverse individuals negotiate the complicitious nature of U. S. racial and ethnic categories in terms of self-descriptive labels. Specifically,...

Differential Risk Perceptions across Hurricane Katrina Evacuees

This study examined differences across race and income in responses to warning messages associated with Hurricane Katrina. Surveys were administered to Katrina evacuees investigating...

The 'Rhetorical Condition' as Mediator in the Response of African Americans to Perceptions of Terrorism: Condoleezza Rice as Symbol

This paper employs black public sphere rhetoric as baseline textual data to describe and critique the psychology of blacks' response to global terrorism. This paper shows blacks' unConventional...