Ethnic Studies

Abstract

This entry provides an overview of the wide‐ranging work deriving from ethnic studies in the heterogeneous discipline of communications. Following a brief definition of ethnic studies, the entry details its presence in all areas of the field—from interpersonal and organizational communications to media studies and its four components: production, content, audiences, and effects. The entry ends with the contemporary turn to hybrid and interracial identities as well as the transnational flow of ethnic populations and—therefore—ethnic studies in communication.