The Global Intercultural Communication Reader

Ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in intercultural communication, The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first comprehensive anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to analyzing and appreciating the diverse ways of communicating in different cultures, and incorporates African and Asian as well as Western perspectives. The volume’s international scope aims to expand and enlarge the field by promoting greater engagement with the closely related field of international communication.

Featuring twenty readings by prominent intercultural and international communication scholars, The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is edited by Molefi Kete Asante, one of the founders of the field of intercultural communication, along with international scholars Yoshitaka Miike and Jing Yin. The field of intercultural communication seeks to understand the process of communicating across cultural boundaries with an aim toward promoting positive relations between different cultures and nations.

Molefi Kete Asante is Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Temple University. He has published more than 60 scholarly books and 300 journal and maganize articles. His most recent books include Erasing Racism: The Survival of the American Nation, The History of Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony, and Race, Rhetoric, and Identity: The Architecton of Soul.

Yoshitaka Miike is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Hawai‘i, Hilo. He received a 2004 Distinguished Scholarship Award from the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association for the 2003 Outstanding Article of the Year.

Jing Yin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Hawai‘i, Hilo. Her research interests include the impact of globalization, media discourse and representation, and non-Western feminist discourse.