Unity in Diversity

Abstract

In this chapter, I want to deal with how multiculturalism affects the National Communication Association (NCA) and all of its members. I want to focus particularly on how multiculturalism affects each of us as individual scholars within the discipline of communication, how multiculturalism affects our sense of organization and the sense of unity and division that goes with such organizational schemes, how multiculturalism affects the policies and actions of NCA, and, finally, how multiculturalism affects the definition of the NCA as a moral, ethical, and political professional education association. Of all of these specific objectives, if I were to articulate one overall and governing thesis statement for the chapter, it would be that multiculturalism should be treated as a scholarly, not a political, issue in the NCA.