Culture, Social Class, and Race in Public Relations

Perspectives and Applications
Herausgeber: Waymer, Damion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Culture, Race, and Class-Based Perspectives in Public Relations, edited by Damion Waymer, covers timely and understudied topics in the field of public relations (PR). Via research, case analysis, and theoretical discussion, the contributors to this volume explore the ways that scholars can address issues of voice (or the lack thereof) that marginalized publics have encountered in the past or are currently encountering in regard to matters of culture, race, and class. A central question this book asks is what role can and does a greater understanding of culture, race, and class play in helping scholars, teachers, students, and practitioners to aid in society becoming a better place to live and work? Culture as well as other divisive social constructs such as race and class must be unpacked, problematized, and considered carefully before the fully functioning vision of society can be deemed possible. Some topics included are the Black Panther Party and Native American Activist rhetorical PR, risk equity, critical race theory, and pedagogical approaches to teaching culture, race, and class. This edited volume serves an important early step by scholars-via the context of public relations-in this process of advocating social justice as well as organizations' role in helping society achieve these ends.

Produktdetails

• Lexington Studies in Political Communication
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9780739173404
• ISBN-10: 0739173405
• Artikelnr.: 36146911

Autorenporträt

Damion Waymer is assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech.)

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. Theoretical Discussions of Culture, Social Class, and Race in
Public Relations Chapter 1. Culture, Social Class, and Race-Based
Perspectives in Public Relations: An Introduction by Damion Waymer Chapter
2. Culture as "Traveling" Variable in Transnational Public Relations: A
Dialectical Approach by Nilanjana Bardhan Chapter 3. A City Divided:
Understanding "Class Issues" in Government Public Relations by Damion
Waymer Chapter 4. The Corporation-as-Middle-Class-Person: Corporate Social
Responsibility and Class by Josh Boyd Chapter 5. Critical Race Theory and
Public Relations by Lee Edwards Chapter 6. Two Unreconciled Strivings:
Racial Constructionism and Eliminitivism in the Philosophy of Race and its
Relevance to Public Relations by Jacoby A. Carter Part 2. Questions of
Pedagogy and Practice: Exploring Topics of Culture, Social Class, and Race
in Public Relations Education Chapter 7. Human Trafficking in the PR
Classroom: Raising Awareness for a Cause, Creating More Ethical PR
Practitioners by Sarah Hagedorn Van Slette Chapter 8. Expanding the
Spectrum of PR and Race: Lessons from European Theorists, Media Critiques,
and Catalan Programming by Jordi Xifra and David McKie Chapter 9. Higher
Learning: Rethinking Crisis Communication in Response to Racial Incidents
on Campus by Marlo Goldstein Hode and Rebecca J. Meisenbach Chapter 10.
Broaching an Uncomfortable Subject: Teaching Race in an Undergraduate
Public Relations Classroom by Damion Waymer Part 3. Culture, Social Class,
and Race in Public Relations: Applications and Implications Chapter 11.
Decolonizing Occupy Oakland: Listening for Native American Voices in a
Struggle against Social Inequality by Jackson B. Miller and Janelle Davis
Chapter 12. Speaking with and for Those Beyond the Margins: Outcast
Advocacy Relations (OAR) in Public by Damion Waymer Chapter 13. Right to
Know and Risk Communication: Implications of Risk Equity by Michael
Palenchar Chapter 14. Was Black Rhetoric Ever Anything but Race in Public
Relations? The Challenge of the Rhetoric of Identity by Robert L. Heath
Afterword by Damion Waymer