Papers by Elizabeth Desnoyers-Colas
Georgia Southern University faculty member Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas authored Raising Our Voic... more Georgia Southern University faculty member Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas authored Raising Our Voices, Communicating Our Existence. Book Summary: Raising Our Voices provides complete and thorough coverage of the study and practice of public speaking, the seventh edition offers students theory and practical skills, presenting public speaking as an art form for transactional communication between speaker and audience. The goal of this text is to make it one that will prepare students to become effective public speakers in any of the various speaking situations they may encounter in their lives. Whether they are presenting in a professional capacity, speaking as a community leader, offering a tribute to a retiring colleague, eulogizing a friend, delivering a commencement address, or sharing views as a concerned citizen, these and other public speaking situations will result in an effective message to the audience.https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/comm-arts-facbookshelf/1006/thumbnail.jp
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 2019
The road a predominantly white institution (PWI) takes to maximize diversity, inclusion, and equi... more The road a predominantly white institution (PWI) takes to maximize diversity, inclusion, and equity can be fraught with challenges. One midsize institution learned through an assessment of its campus climate that its institutional practices and arrangements impeded diversity, inclusion, and equity despite white administrators' beliefs to the contrary. To help quell systemic racism habits, monthly campus-wide workshops focused on several key racial injustice habits and hurtful microaggressions generated from white privilege. A faux social justice allure to white allies who considered themselves advocates of nondominant people is one that should ultimately call into question the genuineness and true nature of their support. This semi-autoethnographic essay is a plaintive call to white colleagues in the academy to earnestly acknowledge white privilege and to use it to actively fight the destructive force of racial battle fatigue and institutional racism.
Routledge eBooks, Mar 23, 2022
Women's Studies in Communication, Apr 3, 2021
It was bound to happen sooner or later. In the midst of yet another spirited discussion on how to... more It was bound to happen sooner or later. In the midst of yet another spirited discussion on how to best cultivate and adopt strategic measures that would enable our midsized Predominantly White Institution (PWI) to nurture, sustain, and finally commit to some realistic measurable Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, a white administrator chided Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) on the University President’s Diversity Advisory Council for fostering supposed narrowly focused DEI training that would pit Black and Brown campus victims of racism against white campus racists who perpetuate it. As a “what the hell?” silence fell over the Zoom Gallery, that same administrator, now bursting with self-righteous white privilege vigor, continued her dismissive racial scolding, suggesting that BIPOC council members should strongly consider advocating for and becoming protective of everyone, not just African Americans. “DEI benefits and applied renumerations aren’t just for African Americans, so why do we just talk about African American diversity needs every time we meet?” she concluded caustically. After seeing several white blonde and brunette heads nod earnestly in agreement, she paused and sat back, drinking in their solidarity. However, judging by the number of frowns, scowls, and glares on Black and Brown faces, I knew her microagressive implication was unmistakably insulting and problematic, not only to me but to the other BIPOC administrators and staff in that mostly white Zoom space. As my college’s council representative, I fully expected my dual computer screen to blink and illuminate like a yellow cubed game version of Hollywood Squares. Someone obviously had something to say about the brazen audacity and maligning of that statement. Frankly, I expected other white university administrators and faculty representatives for the other colleges (who had all the while benefitted in the first place from BIPOC stemmed contribution helping refurbish our university’s DEI mission) to name and challenge her clearly egregious microagressive language and behavior. In fact, I was absolutely confident that there were several white colleagues who identified as allies who would vocally disrupt and shut down any more disparaging racialist tropes from emanating from her mouth in this previously revered DEI space. However, as the silence continued in that digital sea of white space, my confidence in the people who I
Georgia Southern University faculty member Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas authored Duty, Honor, Cou... more Georgia Southern University faculty member Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas authored Duty, Honor, Country…Sickness: Finding Strength in My Personal Battle with Gulf War Illness in Reifying Women\u27s Experiences with Invisible Illness: Illusions, Delusions, Reality. Book Summary: Reifying Women\u27s Experiences with Invisible Illness: Illusions, Delusions, Reality provides a platform that recognizes that the experience of invisible illness is greatly influenced by context and personal circumstance. The contributors to this book include women who exude diversity as it relates to race and ethnicity, career, religious experience, education, social support, and interpersonal relationships. From recent college graduates to senior level professionals, these women share stories that create a space to advocate on behalf of the individual who is chronically ill rather than focusing on the often privileged perspective of medical professionals
Communication in the 2020s
Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World
It was bound to happen sooner or later. In the midst of yet another spirited discussion on how to... more It was bound to happen sooner or later. In the midst of yet another spirited discussion on how to best cultivate and adopt strategic measures that would enable our midsized Predominantly White Institution (PWI) to nurture, sustain, and finally commit to some realistic measurable Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives, a white administrator chided Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) on the University President’s Diversity Advisory Council for fostering supposed narrowly focused DEI training that would pit Black and Brown campus victims of racism against white campus racists who perpetuate it. As a “what the hell?” silence fell over the Zoom Gallery, that same administrator, now bursting with self-righteous white privilege vigor, continued her dismissive racial scolding, suggesting that BIPOC council members should strongly consider advocating for and becoming protective of everyone, not just African Americans. “DEI benefits and applied renumerations aren’t just for A...
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Dec 1, 2019
The road a predominantly white institution (PWI) takes to maximize diversity, inclusion, and equi... more The road a predominantly white institution (PWI) takes to maximize diversity, inclusion, and equity can be fraught with challenges. One midsize institution learned through an assessment of its campus climate that its institutional practices and arrangements impeded diversity, inclusion, and equity despite white administrators' beliefs to the contrary. To help quell systemic racism habits, monthly campus-wide workshops focused on several key racial injustice habits and hurtful microaggressions generated from white privilege. A faux social justice allure to white allies who considered themselves advocates of nondominant people is one that should ultimately call into question the genuineness and true nature of their support. This semi-autoethnographic essay is a plaintive call to white colleagues in the academy to earnestly acknowledge white privilege and to use it to actively fight the destructive force of racial battle fatigue and institutional racism.
Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, 2011
Sociology of Religion, 2005
Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World, 2011
Departures in Critical Qualitative Research
Hegemons arise by smashing and terrorizing human diversity. They do so structurally, institutiona... more Hegemons arise by smashing and terrorizing human diversity. They do so structurally, institutionally, and discursively—that is, through logics, rationales, and schemes. In this special issue, we grapple with the racism problem that pervades communication studies. In fact, the discipline has long had a racism problem, silenced by overarching structures that deploy the language of civility to erase conversations that call out this problem. This special issue, “Merit, Whiteness, and Privilege,” focuses on the racial, ideological, and epistemological logics, rationales, and schemes, such as falsely separating scholarly merit from diversity, that the status quo in communication studies employs to keep minority peoples marginalized. We contend that looking at the racism problem that pervades communication studies from a perspective of whiteness deepens our understanding of this problem in profound ways.
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