Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication examines intercultural communication through an array of cultural and personal perspectives, with each of its contributors writing a first-person account of his or her experiences in the real world. While most readers are collections of scholarly essays that describe intercultural communication, Our Voices presents short, student-oriented readings chosen with an eye toward engaging the
reader. Collectively, the readings tackle the key areas of communication—rhetoric, mass communication, and interpersonal communication—using a uniquely expansive and humanist perspective that provides a voice to otherwise marginalized members of society. Praised by students for its abundance of short, first-person
narratives, Our Voices traverses topics as diverse as queer identity, racial discourse in the United States, "survival mechanisms " in Jamaican speech, and codes of communication in nontraditional families.

NEW TO THIS EDITION:

*New essays on the Obama presidency, Osage naming rituals, Muslim feminist perspectives, South Asian Indian women in the workplace, class identity, and the Haitian tragedy in a global context

*Expanded treatment of Arab Americans and the Muslim world

*Reworked coverage of 9/11 to accommodate our most current understanding and scholarship

Empowering and educating students in equal measure, Our Voices is an ideal reader for any intercultural communication course.