Black Pioneers in Communication Research

Black Pioneers in Communication Research is the only book in the field of communication that - through personal interviews - systematically explores the lives, careers, and profound conceptual contributors of the men and women who have helped shape the contours of humanistic and social scientific inquiry within communication studies and beyond.
Black Pioneers in Communication Research presents a look into the circumstances that shifted the paradigms of interdisciplinary thought. Some of the concepts covered in this book are aforocentricity, articulation theory; aphasia, oral performance and interpretation, womanism, Black English, Black oral traditions, the TrEE communication development model, chronemics, as well as the mammy, buck, mulatto, coon, and Uncle Tom images in film and television.

Sonja M. Brown Givens is assistant professor of Interpersonal Communication in the Department of Communication Arts at the university of Alabama in Huntsville.