Thomas K Nakayama
Biographic Data
| ID | 1261941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas K Nakayama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas K |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakayama |
| SIGNATURE | NAKAYAMA T K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 364 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
QED 10 Years On: Founding Editors’ Farewell
As we close our decade-long editorship of the queer experiment called QED, our hearts are full of gratitude for so many colleagues, collaborators, students, and friends who joined us with tireless labor and warmest encouragement. We thank our marvelous section editors Karma Chávez, Shinsuke Eguchi, Godfried Asante, Bryant Keith Alexander, and Bernadette Calafell; our generous board members and ad hoc reviewers, mentors all; a dozen dedicated edit…
Articulating whiteness
In almost three decades of work on whiteness in communication studies, it has developed in a number of different directions. In contemporary cultural politics, whiteness has transformed into an even more powerful discursive force in society. This piece reflects on the history of the journal, Communication and Critical Cultural Studies, and argues that one of its legacies, articulation theory, offers a particularly productive approach for the furt…
The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication
An up-to-date and comprehensive resource for scholars and students of critical intercultural communication studies In the newly revised second edition of The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication, a lineup of outstanding critical researchers delivers a one-stop collection of contemporary and relevant readings that define, delineate, and inhabit what it means to ‘do critical intercultural communication.’ In this handbook, you will uncov…
ISE Experiencing Intercultural Communication: An Introduction
Whiteness is not contained
The emergence of COVID-19, or the Coronavirus, has sparked a wave of anti-Asian attacks around the world. The cultural logic that does not distinguish among Asian cultural and ethnic groups, as well as the need to find scapegoats, reignites the trope of the “Yellow Peril.” The Yellow Peril is deeply entwined with whiteness and this forum calls for more interrogation of the ways that whiteness reinscribes its position-locally and globally
Interrogating the Communicative Power of Whiteness
Queer Theory
This entry offers an overview of the history and key aspects of queer theory, as well as of its use in communication studies. Additionally, both critiques of queer theory, which are grounded in intersectionality, and the resulting outgrowths of queer of color‐centered perspectives are reviewed. Emerging areas of research, such as transgender studies, are also addressed.
Queers at Play, Transformative; Blackness and Queerness in Ferguson, Electric
Introduction| June 01 2015 Queers at Play, Transformative; Blackness and Queerness in Ferguson, Electric Charles E. Morris, III; Charles E. Morris, III Editors-in-Chief Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Thomas K. Nakayama Thomas K. Nakayama Editors-in-Chief Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2015) 2 (2): v–viii. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.2.2.000v Cite Icon Ci…
Worldmaking and Everyday Interventions
In “Sex in Public,” Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner laid out one of the charges of the queer worldmaking project in that it extends well-beyond those who can be identified: “By queer culture we mean a world-making project, where ‘world,’ like ‘public,’ differs from community or group because it necessarily includes more people than can be identified, more spaces than can be mapped beyond a few reference points, modes of feeling that can be lear…
New Media, Old Racisms: Twitter, Miss America, and Cultural Logics of Race
This article examines the phenomenon of racist speech on social media, focusing on the controversy over racist tweets about the first Indian American Miss America, Nina Davuluri. The essay highlights tensions between "old" and "new" cultural logics about race. Specifically, it explores why such an "old" form of racist discourse, which explicitly imputes racial difference and exclusion, resurfaces on social media in the era of "new" or "color-blin…
Reconsidering intercultural (communication) competence in the workplace: A dialectical approach
Scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (sociolinguistics, language education, communication, business, etc.) have investigated and promoted the notion of competence in intercultural interaction for many years. They have addressed complex issues and proposed culture general and culture specific models and applied these models in various contexts including workplace interaction. In this paper, we examine the assumptio…
Looking Backward and Forward
Editorial| October 01 2014 Looking Backward and Forward Thomas K. Nakayama; Thomas K. Nakayama Editor-in-Chief Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Charles E. Morris, III Charles E. Morris, III Editor-in-Chief Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2014) 1 (3): v–vii. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.1.3.000v Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site …
Paying Mind to GLBTQ Pasts
Because GLBTQ memory is also personal, and because this month marks the twentieth anniversary of a marvelously queer bond, Chuck Morris would like to acknowledge with love and gratitude his partner, Scott Rose
Leaking Chelsea Manning
Act Up-Paris: French Lessons
Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication
What is the Role of the Communication Discipline in Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Public Scholarship? A Visit to the CM Café
In early December of 2010, the virtual doors of the CM Cafe were swung open. Seven scholars were invited to the opening—Sarah Dempsey (University of North Carolina), Mohan Dutta (Purdue University)
The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication
Dynamic Rhetorics of Race: California's Racial Privacy Initiative and the Shifting Grounds of Racial Politics
In October 2003, Californians voted in the high-profile gubernatorial recall election and on what is referred to as the “Racial Privacy Initiative.” The Initiative sought to prohibit the gathering of racial data in education and state employment. Unlike recent such initiatives addressing California's racial laws, this one was unsuccessful: 62 percent of voters said no. This essay examines the discourse surrounding the initiative over its three-ye…
Anger in Performance: A Conversation
The emergence of Asian American communication studies
Nextext
Gay men who are marked as "sexual outlaws" have unique and tense relationships with social regulatory forces, and for the porn star, the tensions are exacerbated. Surveillance, attraction, seduction, repulsion, authority, and discipline mark the communicative dynamics between the bodies of subject/object, performer/spectator, image-maker/imagined. This essay, which is a follow-up to "Sextext," is a fictional account of a porn star who navigates p…
Au contraire! figuring out the French
Current and future directions in ethnicity and methodology
Whiteness and media
Critical media studies have long been interested in racial representations. One of the first articles in media studies to address whiteness explicitly was Richard Dyer's 1988 essay White, which appeared in Screen. Although questions about the politics of racial representation had certainly been on the table long before that-in the regulations of the motion picture industry, as well as critical writing, Dyer turned our attention to the study of wh…
Whiteness: A strategic rhetoric
Communication scholars have often overlooked the importance of whiteness as an influence in their research. In this essay, we explore the territory of whiteness in order to map the discursive space it occupies. This mapping of the discursive space, or territory, of whiteness is the first step in the process of exposing whiteness as a rhetorical construction. We then discuss some of the rhetorical strategies through which whiteness resecures its d…
Thinking Dialectically About Culture and Communication
A survey of contemporary research reveals distinct and competing approaches to the study of culture and communication. These approaches reflect various metatheoretical assumptions, research goals, and beliefs about the role of power and relevance in contemporary research. In order to legitimate the various approaches and facilitate interparadigmatic discussion, this essay first examines the metatheoretical assumptions of current research and then…
Sextext
A fictional account of text and body as fields of pleasure
New Media, Old Racisms: Twitter, Miss America, and Cultural Logics of Race
This article examines the phenomenon of racist speech on social media, focusing on the controversy over racist tweets about the first Indian American Miss America, Nina Davuluri. The essay highlights tensions between "old" and "new" cultural logics about race. Specifically, it explores why such an "old" form of racist discourse, which explicitly imputes racial difference and exclusion, resurfaces on social media in the era of "new" or "color-blin…
Dynamic Rhetorics of Race: California's Racial Privacy Initiative and the Shifting Grounds of Racial Politics
In October 2003, Californians voted in the high-profile gubernatorial recall election and on what is referred to as the “Racial Privacy Initiative.” The Initiative sought to prohibit the gathering of racial data in education and state employment. Unlike recent such initiatives addressing California's racial laws, this one was unsuccessful: 62 percent of voters said no. This essay examines the discourse surrounding the initiative over its three-ye…
Reconsidering intercultural (communication) competence in the workplace: A dialectical approach
Scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (sociolinguistics, language education, communication, business, etc.) have investigated and promoted the notion of competence in intercultural interaction for many years. They have addressed complex issues and proposed culture general and culture specific models and applied these models in various contexts including workplace interaction. In this paper, we examine the assumptio…
Whiteness is not contained
The emergence of COVID-19, or the Coronavirus, has sparked a wave of anti-Asian attacks around the world. The cultural logic that does not distinguish among Asian cultural and ethnic groups, as well as the need to find scapegoats, reignites the trope of the “Yellow Peril.” The Yellow Peril is deeply entwined with whiteness and this forum calls for more interrogation of the ways that whiteness reinscribes its position-locally and globally
Current and future directions in ethnicity and methodology
"Model Minority" and the Media: Discourse on Asian America
Whiteness and media
Critical media studies have long been interested in racial representations. One of the first articles in media studies to address whiteness explicitly was Richard Dyer's 1988 essay White, which appeared in Screen. Although questions about the politics of racial representation had certainly been on the table long before that-in the regulations of the motion picture industry, as well as critical writing, Dyer turned our attention to the study of wh…
What is the Role of the Communication Discipline in Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Public Scholarship? A Visit to the CM Café
In early December of 2010, the virtual doors of the CM Cafe were swung open. Seven scholars were invited to the opening—Sarah Dempsey (University of North Carolina), Mohan Dutta (Purdue University)
Nextext
Gay men who are marked as "sexual outlaws" have unique and tense relationships with social regulatory forces, and for the porn star, the tensions are exacerbated. Surveillance, attraction, seduction, repulsion, authority, and discipline mark the communicative dynamics between the bodies of subject/object, performer/spectator, image-maker/imagined. This essay, which is a follow-up to "Sextext," is a fictional account of a porn star who navigates p…
Worldmaking and Everyday Interventions
In “Sex in Public,” Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner laid out one of the charges of the queer worldmaking project in that it extends well-beyond those who can be identified: “By queer culture we mean a world-making project, where ‘world,’ like ‘public,’ differs from community or group because it necessarily includes more people than can be identified, more spaces than can be mapped beyond a few reference points, modes of feeling that can be lear…
Propaganda and democracy
1998). Propaganda and democracy. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 455-457
Act Up-Paris: French Lessons
Looking Backward and Forward
Editorial| October 01 2014 Looking Backward and Forward Thomas K. Nakayama; Thomas K. Nakayama Editor-in-Chief Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Charles E. Morris, III Charles E. Morris, III Editor-in-Chief Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2014) 1 (3): v–vii. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.1.3.000v Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site …
"Model Minority" and the Media: Discourse on Asian America
Making a Critical Difference: A Difficult Dialogue
Karen E. Altman, Thomas K. Nakayama; Making a Critical Difference: A Difficult Dialogue, Journal of Communication, Volume 41, Issue 4, 1 December 1991, Pag
Show/down time: “Race,”; gender, sexuality, and popular culture
This essay analyzes the construction "race,"; gender, and sexuality in contemporary U.S. popular culture through an analysis of the Hollywood film, Showdown in Little Tokyo, and contemporary mass market magazine images. Focusing on the construction of Asian and white masculinity, this essay suggests ways that white heterosexual masculinity is recentered in U.S. popular culture. This essay also argues for the importance of spatial relations in con…
Whiteness: A strategic rhetoric
Communication scholars have often overlooked the importance of whiteness as an influence in their research. In this essay, we explore the territory of whiteness in order to map the discursive space it occupies. This mapping of the discursive space, or territory, of whiteness is the first step in the process of exposing whiteness as a rhetorical construction. We then discuss some of the rhetorical strategies through which whiteness resecures its d…
Sextext
A fictional account of text and body as fields of pleasure
The Empires Strike Back: The Sokal Controversy and The Vilification of Cultural Studies
Propaganda and democracy
1998). Propaganda and democracy. Critical Studies in Mass Communication: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 455-457
Thinking Dialectically About Culture and Communication
A survey of contemporary research reveals distinct and competing approaches to the study of culture and communication. These approaches reflect various metatheoretical assumptions, research goals, and beliefs about the role of power and relevance in contemporary research. In order to legitimate the various approaches and facilitate interparadigmatic discussion, this essay first examines the metatheoretical assumptions of current research and then…
Current and future directions in ethnicity and methodology
Whiteness and media
Critical media studies have long been interested in racial representations. One of the first articles in media studies to address whiteness explicitly was Richard Dyer's 1988 essay White, which appeared in Screen. Although questions about the politics of racial representation had certainly been on the table long before that-in the regulations of the motion picture industry, as well as critical writing, Dyer turned our attention to the study of wh…
Au contraire! figuring out the French
Nextext
Gay men who are marked as "sexual outlaws" have unique and tense relationships with social regulatory forces, and for the porn star, the tensions are exacerbated. Surveillance, attraction, seduction, repulsion, authority, and discipline mark the communicative dynamics between the bodies of subject/object, performer/spectator, image-maker/imagined. This essay, which is a follow-up to "Sextext," is a fictional account of a porn star who navigates p…
The emergence of Asian American communication studies
Anger in Performance: A Conversation
Dynamic Rhetorics of Race: California's Racial Privacy Initiative and the Shifting Grounds of Racial Politics
In October 2003, Californians voted in the high-profile gubernatorial recall election and on what is referred to as the “Racial Privacy Initiative.” The Initiative sought to prohibit the gathering of racial data in education and state employment. Unlike recent such initiatives addressing California's racial laws, this one was unsuccessful: 62 percent of voters said no. This essay examines the discourse surrounding the initiative over its three-ye…
The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication
Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication
What is the Role of the Communication Discipline in Social Justice, Community Engagement, and Public Scholarship? A Visit to the CM Café
In early December of 2010, the virtual doors of the CM Cafe were swung open. Seven scholars were invited to the opening—Sarah Dempsey (University of North Carolina), Mohan Dutta (Purdue University)
Act Up-Paris: French Lessons
Looking Backward and Forward
Editorial| October 01 2014 Looking Backward and Forward Thomas K. Nakayama; Thomas K. Nakayama Editor-in-Chief Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Charles E. Morris, III Charles E. Morris, III Editor-in-Chief Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2014) 1 (3): v–vii. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.1.3.000v Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site …
Paying Mind to GLBTQ Pasts
Because GLBTQ memory is also personal, and because this month marks the twentieth anniversary of a marvelously queer bond, Chuck Morris would like to acknowledge with love and gratitude his partner, Scott Rose
Leaking Chelsea Manning
Queers at Play, Transformative; Blackness and Queerness in Ferguson, Electric
Introduction| June 01 2015 Queers at Play, Transformative; Blackness and Queerness in Ferguson, Electric Charles E. Morris, III; Charles E. Morris, III Editors-in-Chief Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Thomas K. Nakayama Thomas K. Nakayama Editors-in-Chief Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (2015) 2 (2): v–viii. https://doi.org/10.14321/qed.2.2.000v Cite Icon Ci…
Worldmaking and Everyday Interventions
In “Sex in Public,” Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner laid out one of the charges of the queer worldmaking project in that it extends well-beyond those who can be identified: “By queer culture we mean a world-making project, where ‘world,’ like ‘public,’ differs from community or group because it necessarily includes more people than can be identified, more spaces than can be mapped beyond a few reference points, modes of feeling that can be lear…
New Media, Old Racisms: Twitter, Miss America, and Cultural Logics of Race
This article examines the phenomenon of racist speech on social media, focusing on the controversy over racist tweets about the first Indian American Miss America, Nina Davuluri. The essay highlights tensions between "old" and "new" cultural logics about race. Specifically, it explores why such an "old" form of racist discourse, which explicitly imputes racial difference and exclusion, resurfaces on social media in the era of "new" or "color-blin…
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