Abstract

A disgraceful white boys' club persists within the field of Communication. Engaging key institutional structures and epistemic formations through which the field remains so white, this article considers the mechanisms by which critical race and gender scholars are positioned as eternally foreign, always just arriving, to the field of communication. Addressing the implications of these “epistemologies of ignorance” on the development of the discipline, this article outlines an intellectual and institutional archeology of Communication to reveal, instead, a field marked and shaped, from the start, by ethno-racial encounter. Communication, I suggest, remains so white because its experts and leaders continue to ignore its own institutional DNA, deliberately not knowing profoundly raced elements of its own intellectual history.

中文翻译：

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专家和代币：绘制传播的重要种族考古学

摘要

一个可耻的白人男孩俱乐部仍然存在于传播领域。通过使领域保持如此白皙的关键制度结构和认识论形成，本文考虑了各种机制，通过这些机制，批判种族和性别学者被定位为永远陌生，永远到来的交流领域。针对这些“无知的流行病学”对学科发展的影响，本文概述了传播学的知识和制度考古学，从一开始就揭示了种族和种族交往所标记和塑造的领域。我认为，交流仍然如此苍白，因为它的专家和领导人继续无视其自身的机构DNA，故意不了解自己知识史上深奥的种族元素。