Communication and Race
Launching in 2024
Call for Papers
Inaugural Editor: Armond R. Towns
Launching in 2024 as a journal of the National Communication Association, Communication and Race welcomes submissions that address theorizations of race infrequently published elsewhere. Communication and Race rejects the idea that race is relevant only in reaction to recently publicized events of racism. Instead, the journal’s point of departure is that race plays a significant role in the global circulation of epistemological, political, social, and economic relations. Communication and Race assumes that the serious study of race is of value for a collective push toward thinking about new forms of humanity, far beyond Western race, while also developing a rigorous understanding of Western racial practices. Communication and Race strives to play a central role in imagining a different world, which does not ascribe a higher reality to Europe and its limited classifications of humanity.
While emerging from the field of communication studies, Communication and Race encourages submissions from across the disciplines, with an eye toward fresh theorizations of race. Such approaches may be rhetorical, media analytic, quantitative, qualitative, philosophical, historical and historiographic, (auto)ethnographic, performative, and more. A list of topics and areas of interest for Communication and Race include, but are not limited to, the following:
Global poverty and debt
(Neo)colonialism and decolonization
Climate crises
Robotics and AI
Information economies
Migration, borders, and refugees
Militarism and (anti)imperialism
Finance and consumer capitalism
Labor and unionization
Media archaeology and ecology
Gender and sexuality
Law and legal studies
Nuclear power
Health communication
State-sanctioned violence
Mass incarceration
Nationalism
Fascism
Religion and secularism
Education and knowledge production
Intellectual histories
Literature
Media technology and infrastructure
Submission Guidelines
Communication and Race is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. Essays should be submitted in MS Word, be no more than 9,000 words long, and should adhere to the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style in bibliographical endnote format.
Manuscripts submitted to Communication and Race must not be under review elsewhere or have appeared in any other published forms.
The journal’s submission site is forthcoming. For any questions about the journal or the submissions process, or to submit a piece, please email the Editor Armond Towns, at [email protected].
Editorial Board
Walid Afifi, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Isra Ali, New York University, USA
Raisa Alvarado, California State University, San Bernardino, USA
Reynaldo Anderson, Temple University, USA
Osei Appiah, The Ohio State University, USA
Godfried Asante, San Diego State University, USA
Neda Atanasoski, University of Maryland, USA
Jillian Baez, Hunter College, CUNY, USA
Jared Ball, Morgan State University, USA
Shakuntala Banaji, The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Sara Baugh-Harris, Davidson College, USA
Jody Berland, York University, Canada
Boatema Boateng, University of California, San Diego, USA
Andre Brock, Georgia Institute of Technology
Simone Browne, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Susana Vargas Cervantes, Carleton University, Canada
Paula Chakravartty, New York University, USA
Karma Chavez, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Kundai Chirindo, Lewis & Clark College, USA
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Meredith Clark, Northeastern University , USA
Beth Coleman, University of Toronto, Canada
Robin Means Coleman, Northwestern University, USA
Jose Cortez, University of Oregon, USA
E Cram, University of Iowa, USA
Patricia Davis, Northeastern University, USA
Sharde Davis, University of Connecticut, USA
Travis Dixon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Mohan J. Dutta, Massey University
Sebastian Franklin, Kings College London, UK
Lisa Flores, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Reighan Gillam, University of Southern California
Marnel Niles Goins, Marymount University, USA
Herman Gray, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Kishonna L. Gray, University of Kentucky, USA
Rachel Alicia Griffin, University of Utah, USA
Jaime Guzman, California State University, Northridge, USA
Rona Halualani, San Jose State University, USA
Tina Harris, Louisiana State University, USA
Radha Hegde, New York University, USA
Faiza Hirji, McMaster University, Canada
Atiya Husain, Carleton University, Canada
Ronald Jackson, II, University of Cincinnati, USA
Sarah J. Jackson, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis, USA
Ralina Joseph, University of Washington, USA
R.A. Judy, , University of Pittsburgh, USA
Lilly Irani, , University of California, San Diego, USA
Zenia Kish, University of Tulsa, USA
Rachel Kuo, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , USA
Chenjerai Kumanyika, Rutgers University, USA
Kehbuma Langmia, Howard University, USA
Jose Angel Maldonado, University of South Florida, USA
Madhavi Mallapragada, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Cerise Green Manigault, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA
Jeffrey McCune, University of Rochester, USA
Charlton McIlwain, New York University, USA
Kimberly Moffitt, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Kelli Moore, New York University, USA
Megan Morrissey, University of North Texas
Thomas Nakayama, Northeastern University, USA
Tiara Na’Puti, University of California, Irvine, USA
LeiLani Nishime, University of Washington, USA
Omedi Ochieng, Denison University, USA
David Oh, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA
Kent Ono, University of Utah, USA
Dorthy Pennington, University of Kansas, USA
Raul Perez, LaVerne University, USA
Gloria Pindi, California State University San Marco
Monica Ponder, Howard University, USA
Aswin Punathambekar, University of Virginia, USA
Srividya Ramasubramanian, Syracuse University, USA
Diana Rios, University of Connecticut, USA
Roopika Risam, Darthmouth College, USA
Sarah Sharma, University of Toronto, Canada
Raka Shome, Villanova University, USA
Kumi Silva, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Rianka Singh, York University, Canada
Stacey Sowards, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Hortense J. Spillers, Vanderbilt University, USA
Nicole Starosielski, New York University, USA
Catherine Knight Steele, University of Maryland, USA
Sean J. Upshaw, University of Texas, Austin, USA
Angharad Valdivia, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Anjai Vats, University of Pittsburgh
Corey D. B. Walker, Wake Forest University, USA
Myra Washington, University of Utah, USA
Alexander Weheliye, Brown University, USA
Apryl Williams, University of Michigan, USA
Liam Cole Young, Carleton University
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