Papers by Christy-Dale (Sims) Maurer
Through the use of idealized images of the United States’ (US) past, and quotes by some of the pr... more Through the use of idealized images of the United States’ (US) past, and quotes by some of the prominent people of American history (as well as some who are not so well known), the current US passport presents a particular depiction of what it means to be an American. After a brief explanation of the history of passports and their role related to the establishment of nation-states and citizen identities, I critically analyze the new US passport based on the images and quotes contained within the design. Within this analysis, I address the overarching themes of nature, nostalgia, and Americentrism conveyed by the passport.
Communication Teacher, 2014
by Susan Opt & Christy-Dale L. Sims Courses: Any communication course requiri... more by Susan Opt & Christy-Dale L. Sims Courses: Any communication course requiring a semester-long team project. Objectives: After using the Scrum approach to plan and manage a group project, students will have increased awareness of collaborative needs, improved skills for sharing information in non-evaluative ways, improved time management skills, and enhanced ability to assess their group dynamic constructively.
Journal of Emotional Abuse, 2008
... DOI: 10.1080/10926790802480422 Christy-Dale L. Sims a * pages 375-402. ... Dunn, JL 2002. Cou... more ... DOI: 10.1080/10926790802480422 Christy-Dale L. Sims a * pages 375-402. ... Dunn, JL 2002. Courting disaster: Intimate stalking, culture, and criminal justice , New York: Aldine de Gruyter. View all references; Shearer-Cremean, 200450. Shearer-Cremean, C. 2004. ...
Southern Communication Journal, 2016
Across his presidency, Barack Obama has been situated as the signal of (racial) national progress... more Across his presidency, Barack Obama has been situated as the signal of (racial) national progress and (racial) national decline, prompting heightened attention to national race talk. In this article, we return to the September 2009 announcement that President Obama would give a speech directed to the nation’s schoolchildren. The speech quickly became a site of contentious race talk with critics alleging socialism and communism, not race, and advocates offering praise. We argue that despite different invocations of race, both critics and advocates invoke similar logics of race, grounded in notions of strangeness and familiarity that function both to (dis)engage race and to reiterate race as racist threat. These similar logics produce a zero-sum logic of racism that precludes complex conversation. Lisa A. Flores & Christy-Dale L. Sims (2016) "The Zero-Sum Game of Race and the Familiar Strangeness of President Obama," Southern Communication Journal, 81:4, 206-222, DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2016.1200125
Communication Teacher, 2015
While colleges cannot replicate workplace settings, the e-mail assignment outlined here is an opp... more While colleges cannot replicate workplace settings, the e-mail assignment outlined here is an opportunity to help students learn and practice necessary soft skills such as written communication and interpersonal skills. This email competency assignment requires students demonstrate their technical skill writing effective emails in a professional tone, and offers students and instructors an opportunity to connect interpersonally outside of the classroom.
Review of Communication, 2015
Communication scholars across the discipline have investigated the ways border metaphors influenc... more Communication scholars across the discipline have investigated the ways border metaphors influence racial identity formation and analysis. Intervening in contemporary conversations about racial borders and borderlands, the Race Card Project and accompanying NPR website was designed as a national forum to inspire and encourage a multi-media conversation about race across the United States. Exploring the metaphors they use, the logics they deploy, and the evidence they call upon to substantiate their claims, we contend that Race Card participants engage in a discursive practice that we call antiracial bordering to mitigate their experiences with racism in the United States; however, in so doing, they leave colorblind racist logics intact by devaluing borders (and subsequently categories). Specifically, by crafting antiracial bordering, Race Card participants engage in a post-racial rhetoric that is characterized by 1) discourses of management and transcendence, 2) discourses of scientific reason, and 3) discourses of heteronormativity that serve to sediment the racist logics they set out to trouble. After tracing the nuanced ways each of these discourses characterize antiracial bordering practices and the work they do to uphold colorblind logics of race, we conclude by theorizing the productive (anti-racist) value of constructing and maintaining borders.
Communication Teacher, 2014
by Susan Opt & Christy-Dale L. Sims Courses: Any communication course requiring a... more by Susan Opt & Christy-Dale L. Sims Courses: Any communication course requiring a semester-long team project. Objectives: After using the Scrum approach to plan and manage a group project, students will have increased awareness of collaborative needs, improved skills for sharing information in non-evaluative ways, improved time management skills, and enhanced ability to assess their group dynamic constructively.
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