Between the Structural and the Personal: Situated Sense-Makings of “Race” This research was supported by a grant from the MOSAIC Multicultural Center at San Jose State University. |
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| Authors: | Rona Tamiko Halualani Deanna L Fassett Jennifer Huynh Thi Anh Morrison Patrick Shaou-Whea Dodge |
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| Institution: | 1. rhaluala@email.sjsu.edu |
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| Abstract: | Using a critical intercultural communication perspective and cultural studies interviewing method, this study traces individuals’ subjective sense-makings of diversity through the trope of “race.” Such sense-makings represent the key (and taken-for-granted) locus of the structural and personal where social actors live out the constructions of diversity and race in deeply felt ways. Our study reveals how individuals articulate and understand race via raceless diversity encodings (whereby race is seemingly stripped of its power inequalities, and all racial/ethnic groups are made equal) and racial pivoting (whereby participants both discursively pull away from and move toward race to suit their individual experiences). |
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| Keywords: | Critical Intercultural Communication Studies Race Racial Pivoting Cultural Studies |
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