Call for Abstracts

The Valenti School of Communication at the University of Houston is seeking extended abstracts (600-800 words, excluding citations) for the 5th annual Global Communication Summit, on “Asian Americans and Racism in Everyday Communications”.

There has been a long-documented history of racism toward Asians in Western society, and anti-Asian racial attitudes and discrimination have been increasing in the past several years. Research on racism has neglected Asians, who have been seen as having “made it” in Western societies; the “model minority” group often is perceived as immune to racism. As a result, encounters with racism within the Asian diaspora are often made invisible.

The Global Communication Summit seeks to explore anti-Asian messages, racism, and its consequences. We hope to increase understanding of the dynamics of racism directed at Asians in the U.S.A. and worldwide.

We are calling for extended abstracts of papers or works in progress that explore the role of communications in any aspect of the above issues, including but not limited to the following:

• ·Where do anti-Asian sentiments, racial microaggressions, and racial automaticity appear to exist? How are they manifested in different forms of communication?

• What communication forms do anti-Asian sentiment, racial microaggressions, and racial automaticity take?

• What are the impacts and consequences felt in daily communication?

• To what extent do Asians in the U.S.A and worldwide experience anti-Asian racism differently because of their gender, immigration status, socioeconomic status, and education?

• What are the potential mechanisms through which anti-Asian racism becomes invisible?

• · What role do news and entertainment media play in contributing to, or fighting, anti-Asian sentiment?

• How has social media exacerbated, or been used to challenge anti-Asian sentiment?