My new book, Dismantling Racism One On One highlights the power of each person’s uniqueness to transform racist interactions. The key, as I explain there, is for conversation partners to co-construct uniquenesses. I re-tell three true stories of racist...
When Oscar host Neil Patrick Harris mocked the whiteness of the 2015 awards, some viewers were offended, but most of those whose heads were out of the sand for at least part of the previous year recognized that Harris’ writers had just googled what’s trending. All...
Well before Starbucks, coffee came in metal cans that opened with a key. You pried up the tab at the top of the can, inserted it into the slot on the key, gave a sharp twist to pop the vacuum seal, and enjoyed a delightful whiff of fresh grounds. Then you kept...
This essay is published as Chapter 2 of The Handbook of Communication Ethics, edited by George Cheney, Steve May, and Debashish Munshi (New York: Routledge, 2011), pp. 15-30. The Handbook is part of a series published by the International Communication Association,...
