Cultural diversity and the politics of inquiry: response to Mathison and McPhail

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Maureen A. Mathison and Mark McPhail's criticisms of the essentialist premises for the causal model involving communication and cultural diversity focused on identity politics and communication inquiry. Mathison's analysis of feminist standpoint epistemology begun with the assumption that all knowledge is inherently partial and differences in knowledge claims became the starting point of her alternative conception of inquiry. McPhail also argued that the political interest of racial equality will be better served by shifting the direction of cultural critique away from racial conflicts.

Knowledge, Theory of, Epistemology, Black identity, Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)

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(Re)constructing the color line: complicity and Black conservatism

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The operation of 'identity politics' at work in the African American intellectual community's objection to Black conservative discourses was characterized by the promotion of Afrocentric epistemology. African American scholars countered the pernicious racism of dominant Eurocentric perspectives by promoting the rhetorics of Afrocentricity, Black Power and Black Cultural nationalism. Furthermore, negative division and infighting within the African American intellectual community ultimately served the interests of the interracial status quo.

Social aspects, Afrocentrism, Black power, Black power movement

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Media communications vs. cultural studies: overcoming the divide

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The field of communications has never had clear boundaries. Because of this, different universities put it under different domains, sometimes under humanities departments, other times under social studies departments but, more often, in schools of communications. The disciplinary problem in mass media research that has resulted from the division of the communications fields into cultural studies and the study of mass-mediated communication is analyzed.

Analysis, Study and teaching, Mass media, Social sciences

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