Critical: A Finer Edge

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Acknowledgements

His written work includes Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past (2009); Asian Americans and the Media (with Vincent Pham, 2008); and Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and California's Proposition 187 (with John M. Sloop, 2002). The author would like to thank Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rachel Dubrofsky, and Sarah Projansky for their timely and incisive comments on the essay.

Notes

1. Tim Spurgin, “English 60A: Contemporary Critical Theory,” http://www.lawrence.edu/dept/english/courses/60a/

2. There are far too many figures I wish to mention here (and a strict 2,000 word limit), so rather than refer to specific works, I am simply going to list (overly briefly) some key figures in this area: Nestor Canclini, Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, Patricia Hill Collins, Inderpal Grewal, Caren Kaplan, Elaine Kim, Audre Lorde, Chandra Mohanty, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Ella Shohat, Stuart Hall, Edward Said, and Paul Gilroy.

3. Again, due to space constraints, rather than refer to specific works, I am going to refer to people instead (again in a highly truncated fashion): Carrie Crenshaw, Lisa Flores, Rona Halualani, Dreama G. Moon, Thomas K. Nakayama, Judith N. Martin (Eds.), Bernadette Calafell, Daniel Brouwer, Karma Chavez, Raka Shome, Radha Hegde, Angharad Valdivia, Barbara A. Biesecker, Melissa Deem, Ronald Greene, Aimee Carrillo-Rowe, Carole Blair, Carole Stabile, E. Patrick Johnson, Charles Morris, Katherine Sender, and Sarah Banet-Weiser.

4. For an account of the relationship between critical studies and cultural studies in communication, see my essay where I argue for a rapprochement between the two traditions. Kent A. Ono, “Critical/Cultural Approaches to Communication,” 21 ^st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook, ed. William F. Eadie (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2009), 74–81.

5. For a discussion of the significance of performance to critical projects, please see, for example, Bernadette Marie Calafell, Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance (New York: Peter Lang, 2007).

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Kent A. Ono

Kent A. Ono is Professor of Communications and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign