Possibilities

'Possibilities' brings two disciplinary formations into creative relation—Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Communication and Media Studies—centering cultural communities and their iterations through and against communication. The series takes up the activist impulse rooted in the founding of Ethnic Studies through the labor of Indigenous, Black, Latina/o/x/e, and Asian American communities, and allows that impulse to grow into Communication and Media Studies, catalyzing the series to be critical, reflexive, and dynamic.
Foregrounding U.S. racial and ethnic formations and performances in relation to imperialism, settler colonialism, and the enduring and recurring traumas of genocide, slavery, anti-Blackness, and internment, 'Possibilities' also follows diasporic, transnational, and border-crossing realities manifested through texts, institutions, and lived experience. We invite work driven by empirical daring matched with epistemic humility, as well as participatory exigency linked to forward-thinking potentiality.
'Possibilities' deepens long-standing questions of race and ethnicity across sex, gender, ability, class, nationality, locality, and the like, all with the desire for intellectual growth. We encourage the cultivation of methods and representational forms and we call for imaginings of fuller ways of being nourished by interdisciplinary questions. 'Possibilities' takes its name from its advocacy: a tending toward resourceful visioning, sustainable offerings, and critical hope.

The series was published under the name Critical Intercultural Communication Studies until volume 33.

Award winning titles:
Gutierrez-Perez, R. (2021). Jotería Communication Studies: Narrating Theories of Resistance. Peter Lang.
"Book of the Year Award from the Latina/o Communication Studies Division and La Raza Caucus, National Communication Association"
Eguchi, S. (2022). Asians loving Asians: Sticky rice homoeroticism and queer politics. Peter Lang.
"Outstanding Book Award, Asian Pacific American Communication Studies Division, National Communication Association"
"Book of the Year Award, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Communication Studies Division of the National Communication Association"
Moreira, R. (2021). Bitches Unleashed: Performance and Embodied Politics in Favela Funk. Peter Lang,
"Bonnie Ritter Book Award, Feminist and Gender Studies Division, National Communication Association"
"Distinguished Scholarship Award for the Best Book, International and Intercultural Communication Division"
"Innovator Award for Most Outstanding Book, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Caucus, Central States Communication Association"
Calafell, B. (2007). Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance. Peter Lang.
"Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies, National Communication Association"