Teaching Team
Susan Brower, Lance Hill, Dr. Marsha Houston
Curriculum
Tulane's -ISM (N.) course was offered through the Communication Studies
department and titled "Intercultural Communication".
This was a course about socio-cultural differences and their effects on
human communication. Its emphasis was on the pluralistic nature of the
United States, with its mix of social groups who define themselves by
such features as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion or
national origin. In such a heterogeneous environment, knowledge of
intercultural communication is necessary for satisfactory human
interaction. The course examined the nature of the human communication
process and its relationship to culture, the issues and problems
communicators encounter in various intercultural contexts and strategies
for creating effective intercultural communication.
Community Educational Activity
The "Common Ground" program, developed by the Southern Institute for
Education and Research at Tulane University, uses a structured discussion
format to promote meaningful dialogue on diversity and to assist those
seeking solutions to racial and religious divisions on campus and in the
community. Videos produced by students in the Spring 1996 -ISM (N.)
course at Tulane will be used in these discussion formats in addition to
being used during freshman orientation as conversation starters to
encourage a discussion of diversity on campus. Lastly, the -ISM (N.)
videos will be used in an annual program conducted jointly with the
Metropolitan Area Committee (MAC), a community based leadership training
program in New Orleans. The videos will permit students to engage in a
dialogue with an ethnically diverse group of community and business leaders.
Contact: Lance Hill, lhill@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
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Resources Used In Course
Gonzalez, Alberto; Houston, Marsha; and Chen, Victoria (EDS.). (1994). Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Los Angeles: Roxbury Press. (Tulane)
Gudykunst, William B. (1995). Bridging Differences: Effective Intergroup Communication (Second Edition). Newbury Park, CA: Sage. (Tulane)
Whillock, Rita Kirk and Slayden, David, (EDS.). (1995). Hate Speech. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. (Tulane)
Bender, David. "How Can Racism be Stopped?", Opposing Viewpoints Series. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1989. (Tulane)
Chen "Dehyphenated Identity: The Double Voice in the Woman Warrior", Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1994. (Tulane)
Cose "Seething in Silence--The News in Black and White", Media Studies Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 1994. (Tulane)
Cummings James. "When Miss America Was Always White", Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1994. (Tulane)
Dalaney. "Pop Culture,Gangsta Rap and theNew Vaudeville", Media Studies Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 1994. (Tulane)
Dennis. "Racial Naming", Media Studies Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 1994. (Tulane)
Dudley, William. "Should Society Encourage Increased Acceptance of Homosexuality?", Opposing Viewpoints Series. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1993. (Tulane)
Entman. "African American s According to TV News", Media Studies Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 1994. (Tulane)
Garner. "Oral Rhetorical Practice in African American Culture", Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1994. (Tulane)
Goldberg, David Theo. "Hate or Power?", Hate Speech. Eds. Rita Kirk Whillock and David Slayden, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1995. (Tulane)
Gong. "When Mississippi Chines Talk", Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1994.(Tulane)
Gonzales and Flores. "Tejana Music and Cultural Identification", Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1994. (Tulane)
Hacker. "Are the Media Really White?", Media Studies Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 1994. (Tulane)
Houston, Marsha. "When Black Women Talk with White Women: Why Dialogues are Difficult", Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1994. (Tulane)
Kochman, Thomas. "Classroom Modalities", Black and White: Styles in Conflict. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. (NCCU) (Tulane)
Lozano. "The Cultural Experience of Space and Body: A Reading of Latin American and Anglo American Comportment in Public", Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1994. (Tulane)
Marable. "Reconciling Race and Reality", Media Studies Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 1994. (Tulane)
Miller. "Immigration, the Press and the New Racism", Media Studies Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 1994.(Tulane)
Moritz. "The Gay Agenda: Marketing Hate Speech to Mainstream America", Hate Speech. Eds. Rita Kirk Whillock and David Slayden, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1995. (Tulane)
Nakayama "Dis/Orienting Identities: Asian Americans, History and Intercultural Communication", Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1994. (Tulane)
Nero. "Black Queer Identity, Imaginative Rationality and the Language of Home", Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1994. (Tulane)
Perlmutter Bowen. "Jewish and/or Woman:Identity and Communicative Style", Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1994. (Tulane)
Reeves and Campbell. "Coloring the Crack Crisis", Media Studies Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 1994. (Tulane)
Slayden, David. "Holy Wars and Vile Bodies: The Politics of an American Iconography", Hate Speech. Eds. Rita Kirk Whillock and David Slayden, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1995.(Tulane)
Smith. "Racist Hate Speech: Constitutional Freedom or Festering Sore on the Body Politic?", Hate Speech. Eds. Rita Kirk Whillock and David Slayden, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1995. (Tulane)
Tanno. "Names Narratives and the Evolution of Ethnic Identity", Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Eds. Alberto Gonzalez, Marsha Houston, and Victoria Chen, Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Press, 1994. (Tulane)
van Dijk, Teun A. "Elite Discourse and the Reproduction of Racism", Hate Speech. Eds. Rita Kirk Whillock and David Slayden, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1995. (Tulane)
Whillock, D.E. "Symbolism and the Reproduction of Hate in Visual Discourse", Hate Speech. Eds. Rita Kirk Whillock and David Slayden, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1995. (Tulane)
Whillock, R.K. "The Use of Hate as a Stratagem for Achieving Political and Social Goals", Hate Speech. Eds. Rita Kirk Whillock and David Slayden, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1995.(Tulane)
Whitehead, Fred. "What Cultural Influences Should the U.S. Perpetuate?", Opposing Viewpoints Series. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1994. (Tulane)
Wong. "Covering the Invisible 'Model Minority'", Media Studies Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, Summer 1994. (Tulane)
Student Video Topics
race relations ... black
identity ... rap music ... preconceived notions about Asian
Americans ... Jewish identity