Notes from the talking drum
exploring black communication and critical memory in intercultural communication contexts

Preface -- Conceptualizing the talking drum. Situating black communication as intercultural experience -- The iterativity of racism -- Consciousness -- Was Wright wrong? critical memory as sociopolitical context -- Critical memory and the quest to become the first Black U.S. President -- African-centeredness, intercultural communication, and critical memory. Constructing African-centered theory -- Strengths and criticism of African-centered frameworks -- Overview of intercultural communication -- Power and privilege -- Critical memory as means and method for discovery -- The Black gaze. Gazing at whiteness -- Blackness as visible-invisible -- Whiteness and representations of terror and abuse -- Voice. Naming ourselves -- A rhetoric of affirmation -- Voice and a rhetoric of possibility -- Space. Space and the color-line -- Interpreting experiences and moving toward ethnorelativism -- Voice, gaze, space, and why it matters. Conclusion : from understanding to action