Aims and scope

Communication and Race is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. It publishes original scholarship on the centrality of race, racism, and colonialism to the praxis of communication. The journal contributes in distinct ways to the field of communication by building on the theories and epistemologies of Black, Ethnic, Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian studies scholars. Communication and Race calls for interdisciplinary scholarship that welcomes a variety of methods in the field, including but not limited to, rhetorical, interpretative, (auto)ethnographic, social-scientific, historical, humanistic, narrative, statistical, poetic, and political-economic.

The journal is especially interested in articles that do not simply react to Western epistemologies and constructs, but also theorize through and beyond Western thought and categorizations. It begins with the premise that the history of communication studies has accepted Western epistemologies as a default; however, there are a number of other epistemological positions that include and exceed the West, and beginning with those alternative epistemologies transforms what communication studies can be. Especially welcomed are interdisciplinary, international, and transnational articles that draw a connection between communication studies and other important theoretical lineages and fields, such as, but not limited to:

• Asian and Asian American Studies
• Black Studies
• Critical African Studies
• Critical Muslim Studies
• Critical Race Theories
• Decolonial Theory
• Environmental Studies
• Ethnic Studies
• Feminist Theory
• Native American & Indigenous Studies
• Intersectionality
• Latinx Studies
• Postcolonial Studies
• Queer Theory.