Woke skin, white masks: race and communication studies

This essay questions whether resistance and resignation are the only options available to Communication scholars whose work is focused on race. Resistance can only be understood in counter to Whiteness while resignation takes Whiteness at its word, both reactions center and re-center Whiteness. Ultimately, this piece starts down a path of self-definitions and determinations created outside the confines of Whiteness, building solidarities and kinships along the way.