Provides the first comprehensive theorization of Black/African Communication
Brings together renowned scholars of Black and African Communication Studies
Contributes to the growing literature in communication research focused on non-Western foundations and identities
 
1. Introduction (Kehbuma Langmia)
Part I Afrocentric Communication Theories
2. The Classical African Concept of Maat and Human Communication (Molefi Kete Asante)
3. Cognitive Hiatus and the White Validation Syndrome: An Afrocentric Analysis (Ama Mazama)
Part II Africana Communication Theories
4. Igbo Communication Styles: Conceptualizing Ethnic Communication Theory (Uchenna Onuzulike)
5. Kuelekea Nadharia Ujamaa Mawasiliano: Toward a Familyhood Communication Theory (Abdul Karim Bangura)
6. Afro-Cultural Mulatto Communication Theory (Kehbuma Langmia)
7. Venerative Speech Theory and African Communalism: A Geo-Cultural Perspective (Bala A. Musa)
8. Africana Symbolic Contextualism Theory (Faith Nguru and Agnes Lucy Lando)
9. The HaramBuntu-Government-Diaspora Relationship Management Theory (Stella-Monica N. Mpande)
10. Dynamism: N'digbo and Communication in Post-Modernism (Chuka Onwumechili)
11. Consciencist Communication Theory: Expanding the Epistemology on Nkrumahism (Abdul Karim Bangura)
Part III African American Communication Theories
12. Afrocentricity of the Whole: Bringing Women and LGBTQIA Voices in from the Theoretical Margins (Natalie Hopkinson and Taryn K. Myers)
13. New Frames: A Pastiche of Theoretical Approaches to Examine African American and Diasporic Communication (Gracie Lawson-Borders)
Part IV Latin America & Caribbean Communication Theories
 
14. Creolized Media Theory: An Examination of Local Cable Television in Jamaica as Hybrid Upstarts (Nickesia S. Gordon)
15. Caribbean Communication: Social Mediation Through the Caribbean ICT Virtual Community (CIVIC) (Roger Caruth)
16. Color Privileges, Humor, and Dialogues: Theorizing How People of African Descent in Brazil Communicatively Manage Stigmatization and Racial Discrimination (Juliana Maria da Silva Trammel)