Ronald Jackson

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at University of Cincinnati

Courses Public Speaking, Rhetorical Criticism, Intercultural Communication. Objectives By utilizing a culturally competent Asiacentric approach to public speaking, students will be able to: (1) identify public-speaking techniques that more readily align with culturally relevant paradigms; (2) adopt a mindful approach to public speaking that takes...

The immense set of sociopolitical privileges that insulate and protect white people teaches them in sometimes implicit ways that not only are they better than people of color, but also that racial others are subordinate. Despite how ridiculous this presumption of superiority sounds, it is repeatedly steeped in the consciousness of white people from...

This brief manuscript offers commentary about the Opening Session of the 2017 National Communication Association annual convention.

The words “police brutality” when paired together ought to sound like an oxymoron. Yet we have learned that marginalized group members have somehow not earned the same protection under the law as others. Although the law is the site at which ordinary citizens depend on jurisprudence, fairness, and integrity in the United States, the failure of the...

The fixity and fluidity of whiteness in the United States is astounding. It is amazing that a social force can be so stable that it cements the social order, yet so flexible that it eludes the average American. Whether wanting to admit it or not, as scholar McCarthy indicates, whiteness benefits from identity politics associated with the racial Oth...

In an effort to address the contemporary relevance of African American communication, this essay explores the impetus, heuristic value, foundational premises, and proliferation of this burgeoning field that has come to be known as African American Communication, by attending to two inextricable themes underlying much of African American Communicati...

Using a critical cultural studies framework, and the tenets of critical media literacy, this project began as an opportunity for 76 racially mixed students (i.e. Asians, Hispanics, Blacks, Bi-racial, Whites and other) to deconstruct a popular film text, Far from Heaven (2002), and to examine how students process otherness within this film, as well...

Catherine Campbell explores the concept of difference and identity from a social psychology perspective

The defining nature and characteristics of qualitative research are surveyed in this article, which identifies key distinctions between method and methodology. The authors note that qualitative research is primarily concerned understanding human beings' experiences in a humanistic, interpretive approach. Issues of research design differences betwee...

The absence of any written mainstream valuation of African American theories and historical relevancies presents a significant commentary and dilemma within the field of human communication studies and other disciplines as well. It forces committed African American intellectuals to ask ourselves if we have created a large enough arsenal of quality...

Scripting the Black Masculine Body traces the origins of Black body politics in the United States and its contemporary manifestations in popular cultural productions. From early blackface cinema through contemporary portrayals of the Black body in hip-hop music and film, Ronald L. Jackson II examines how African American identities have been social...

This study examined news readers' memories of race-related facial features of an individual pictured in the news. Participants were presented with a series of news stories, including one of four different versions of the news story of interest: nonstereotyped, stereotyped/noncrime, nonviolent crime, violent crime. Each of the four versions containe...

While pedagogy is often related to issues of democracy, citizenship, and the struggle over the shaping of identities and identifications, it is rarely taken up as part of a broader public politics—as part of a larger attempt to explain how learning takes place outside of schools. (Giroux, 2001, p. 128) The relationship between moral argument and pu...

In the present investigation, we seek to explore racial relationships in a meaningful way that opens discussion about racial and gendered beings, particularly Black males. We qualitatively examine White student responses to their Black male professor's presence and pedagogy in the classroom during a required course titled “Intercultural Communicati...

After reviewing issues of The Speech Teacher and Communication Education from inception through 2003, the authors note the absence of any prolonged, systematic investigation of the influence of race or the interplay of multiple cultural identities in academic settings. This introductory essay articulates the importance of acknowledging the existenc...

It is rare to find studies that focus on the multiple reacculturation of travelers who regularly alternate residences between their homeland and a host foreign country. These travelers are best described as intercultural transients. It is difficult to exactly say how many transients exist today because of the lack of accurate data. What is clear, h...

A review of identity research in communication theory: Reconceptualizing cultural identity Identity is the American dilemma. It is a crisis of what it means to be an American. Myrdal (1944) argues that the American dilemma is the moral dilemma of Americans, a conflict between the American creed and collective consciousness. Myrdal suggests that suc...

This study takes a qualitative approach to understanding perceptions of White student identity in response to a racial hate email circulated to minority students throughout a predominantly White university campus community in the U.S. in 1999. This investigation adopts a critical White studies framework. Results indicated that even though White stu...

This essay introduces a nascent paradigm for exploring identity shifting and identity negotiation. Cultural Contracts Theory metaphorically explains the attitudinal and social predispositions interactants have when relating to others within and without one's own culture

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether successfully closed (Status 26) African Americans and White Americans differed in the type of vocational rehabilitation (VR) services received. Authors used the chi-square and phi coefficient to ascertain the association and significance between the independent and dependent variables, respective...

Within this article, I have three simple objectives: to explain (1) where we are as African American communication researchers, (2) how we arrived at this point, and (3) where we should go from here. In explaining where we are, I assess the state of African American communication research. Then I introduce the cultural contracts paradigm to facilit...

The United States is transitioning into the new millennium with actual and projected growth in racial and ethnic minority populations. However, racial minority customers remain underrepresented among those receiving services in vocational rehabilitation. Moreover, there is a differential rate of acceptance for customers from racial and ethnic minor...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Maryland at College Park, 1996. Photocopy.

This study explores the role of communication in the strategic self‐definition of whiteness. The transcripts from two focus group interviews (with Whites from two Historically Black Universities) are used to map the discourses of “White” participants concerning the nature of whiteness. The maps, when analyzed, uncovered significant commentary about...

By explaining his personal background, a few racial episodes and anecdotes, a coping strategy for racism, and implications of racism for the helping professions in general, the author argues that self-exploration and monitoring is the key to human and spiritual evolvement, racial cohesion, and being an effective scholar-professional. The author bel...

In the 1960s Clyde Kluckhohn recognized the ambiguous implications and usage of race, ethnicity, and culture within scientific inquiry; furthermore, he commented about the frequency and significance of this phenomenon. Even in the 1990s this conundrum persists. Prior research has not critically examined the tendency to freely substitute race, ethni...

Critical Studies in Media Communication (CSMC) publishes scholarship in media and mass communication written from a critical perspective. Research articles published in the journal make a substantial contribution to existing literature in media studies; provide novel, theoretical insights that have the potential to stimulate further research and so...