Communication, Race and Family takes a bold step by exploring how family communication influences the perennial and controversial topic of race. This volume argues that the hope for managing America's troubles with race lies not only with communicating about race at public meetings, at school and in the media, but also, and more fundamentally, with families communicating constructively about race at home. Home is where lessons about the merits of diversity and how to navigate diverse environments can be taught and lived. Home is where society's youngest members can be taught how to improve...

Inspired by recent work in positive psychology, Positive Communication in Health and Wellness gives scholarly attention to what's going right in people's communication lives. The book harnesses a dispersed - but powerful - body of communication scholarship that has at its center a focus on building healthy communication contexts and generating wellness. By organizing and representing contemporary communication scholarship in the area of positive communication in health and wellness, the essays in this book will inspire collective action and further scholarship that highlights the...

Inspired by recent work in positive psychology, Positive Communication in Health and Wellness gives scholarly attention to what s going right in people s communication lives. The book harnesses a dispersed but powerful body of communication scholarship that has at its center a focus on building healthy communication contexts and generating wellness. By organizing and representing contemporary communication scholarship in the area of positive communication in health and wellness, the essays in this book will inspire collective action and further scholarship that highlights the potential...