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Leda Cooks
Researcher at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Publications - 28
Citations - 439
Leda Cooks is an academic researcher from University of Massachusetts Amherst. The author has contributed to research in topics: Identity (social science) & Critical pedagogy. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 26 publications receiving 419 citations. Previous affiliations of Leda Cooks include Ohio University.
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Pedagogy, Performance, and Positionality: Teaching about Whiteness in Interracial Communication.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the relationships among bodies, identities, and performances of whiteness in an Interracial Communication course using the concepts of positionality and performatio-theory.
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Assessing Learning in Community Service Learning: A Social Approach
Leda Cooks,Erica Scharrer +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that learning in community service learning and the assessment thereof might fruitfully be considered in communication with others (the students, constituents from the community, instructors, etc.).
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Beyond the satire: Selective exposure and selective perception in “In Living Color”
Leda Cooks,Mark P. Orbe +1 more
TL;DR: This article used selective exposure and selective perception theories to analyze both the viewership and the reaction to "In Living Color" and found negative stereotyping, potential for learning about African American culture, reality vs. parody, comparison to similar shows, and economic vs. societal value of the show.
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From distance and uncertainty to research and pedagogy in the Borderlands: implications for the future of intercultural communication
TL;DR: Their new subjectivity emerges in the process of drawing borders around their old subject positions, a process that constitutes them as nascent specular border intellectuals as discussed by the authors, whose contemplation of the condition of their lives represents a freedom, or at least an attempt to have freedom, from the politics of imaginary identification and opposition.