Friday November 18, 2011 - National Communication Association

Chair: Dexin Tian, Savannah College of Art and DesignRespondent: Dexin Tian, Savannah College of Art and Design"'We Chinese are not racist people, but…': Anti-black racial sentiments and discourse in contemporary Chinese social space" Qi Tang,Tennessee State Univ; Jincao Yu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China"Building Bridges between the East and West: A critical examination of the major cultural differences between Asian students andtheir American counterparts and the strategies to dealing with the differences in US classrooms" Chin-Chung Chao, Univ of Nebraska,Omaha"Identity development & communication strategies: How students of color survive and thrive in pre-dominant White Division IIIprivate higher education institutions" Hsiu-Jung Mindy Chang, Western New England College"Motherhood: A process of becoming better selves for Chinese mother bloggers" Yahui Zhang, Wayland Baptist Univ"To be a 'sea turtle' or not to be: Analysis of a Chinese immigrant online forum on possibilities to return" Janice Hua Xu, CabriniCollege305095 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM Sheraton New Orleans Rhythms III - Second FloorNew Voices in the Church: How Marginalized Groups Join the DiscussionSponsors: Convention Theme Group, Religious Communication AssociationChair: Eilene Wollslager, St. Mary's University"Unwelcome Voices and Unwelcome Questions: The Pattern of Silencing Discussions that Challenge Conventional Theology within theEvangelical Tradition" Jessica Ptomey, Kaplan Univ"Giving Voice to Marginalized Individuals: How One Woman with Disabilities Found Her Voice In Church Settings" Laura F. Sherwood,Oral Roberts University"Women’s Voices in the Pulpit: A Qualitative Exploration of Women’s Journey from Pew to Pulpit" Eilene Wollslager, St. Mary'sUniversity305101 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM Sheraton New Orleans Napoleon A1 - Third FloorEmerging Scholars in Critical and Cultural StudiesSponsor: Critical and Cultural Studies DivisionChair: Radhika Gajjala, Bowling Green State UnivRespondent: Kent A. Ono, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign"Coming out of Closets, Coming out of Shadows: The Risky Rhetoric of Appropriation" Karma R. Chávez, Univ of Wisconsin, Madison"Durable Participants: A Generational Approach to Reality TV’s 'Ordinary' Labor Pool" Hugh Curnutt, Montclair State Univ"Reading the Danish Cartoons Affair against the Grain: Re-ontologizing the Social" Ferruh Yilmaz, Tulane University"Thug Life: Outlaw Emotion and the Meaning(s) of Tupac Shakur" Bryan J. McCann, Wayne State University305103 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM Sheraton New Orleans Napoleon A3 - Third FloorCrossing, Maintaining, and Living Borders: Cultural Discourses from Immigration to Transnational LaborSponsor: Critical and Cultural Studies DivisionChair: Susana Martinez Guillem, Univ of Colorado, BoulderRespondent: Kelly Happe, University of Georgia"Border Patrols: The Creation and Maintenance of the Israeli People through Film and Television" Joshua L Beaty, Univ of Pittsburgh"Humanitarian Discourse Legitimating Migration Control: FRONTEX Public Communication" Karina Horsti, New York University"Moving On Up: Examining the Construction of Chinese Social Reality through Transnational Corporations' Relocation Practices" NanLi, California State Univ, Chico; Michele H. Jackson, Univ of Colorado, Boulder"Rethinking Resistance: Space and Culture in Transnational Alliances" Alexa Dare, Gonzaga University305104 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM Sheraton New Orleans Napoleon B1 - Third Floor