Thomas K. Nakayama is Professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University. He is founding editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and has published widely in the areas of critical race and critical intercultural communication, including Intercultural Communication in Contexts, Fourth Edition (2007), Experiencing Intercultural Communication, Third Edition (2007) and Human Communication in Society, Second Edition (2010). Rona Tamiko Halualani is Professor of Intercultural Communication in the Department of Communication Studies at San Jose State University. Her research interests include the following: critical intercultural communication studies, intercultural contact, race/ethnicity; diversity, prejudice, identity and cultural politics, diasporic identity, and Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders. She is the author of In the Name of Hawaiians: Native Identities and Cultural Politics (2002).
A fascinating read for those of us who are not familiar with this stream, as well as for those well-versed in the discipline. The contributions to the handbook represent a broad range of topics; they offer various theoretical perspectives and future orientations in critical intercultural communication. (The Delta Intercultural Academy, 1 August 2013)