Theoretical considerations

Gina Castle Bell, Mark C. Hopson, Melinda R. Weathers, and Katy A. Ross, “From ‘Laying the Foundations’ to Building the House: Extending Orbe's (1998) Co-Cultural Theory to Include ‘Rationalization’ as a Formal Strategy,” Communication Studies, Vol. 66, 2014, pp. 1-26.

Sara DeTurk, “Allies in Action: The Communicative Experiences of People Who Challenge Social Injustice on Behalf of Others,” Communication Quarterly, Vol. 59, 2011, pp. 569-590.

Jesse Fox and Katie M. Warber, “Queer Identity Management and Political Self-Expression on Social Networking Sites: A Co-Cultural Approach to the Spiral of Silence,” Journal of Communication, Vol. 65, 2015, pp. 79-100.

Mark P. Orbe and Colin J. Batten, “Diverse Dominant Group Responses to Contemporary Co-Cultural Concerns: U.S. Intergroup Dynamics in the Trump Era,” Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric, Vol. 7, 2017, pp. 19-33.

Rona Tamiko Halualani, S. Lily Mendoza, and Jolanta A. Drzewiecka, “‘Critical’ Junctures in Intercultural Communication Studies: A Review,” Review of Communication, Vol. 9, 2009, pp. 17-35.

Applied contexts

Michael K. Ault and Bobbi Van Gilder, “Polygamy in the United States: How Marginalized Religious Communities Cope with Stigmatizing Discourses Surrounding Plural Marriage,” Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Vol. 44, 2015, pp. 307-328.

Bijie Bie and Lu Tang, “Chinese Gay Men’s Coming Out Narratives: Connecting Social Relationship to Co-Cultural Theory,” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 9, 2016, pp. 351-367.

Mark Congdon Jr., “What's Wrong with Me?: An Autoethnographic Investigation of the Co-Cultural Communicative Practices of Living with Tourette Syndrome during Adolescence,” Qualitative Report, Vol. 19, 2014, pp. 1-25.

Andrew Dix, “Heard to Believe: Perceptual Study of a Marginalized Sport Co-Culture on Others’ Willingness to Listen,” Florida Communication Journal, Vol. 48 (2), 2020, pp. 165–81.

Eun-Jeong Han and Paula Groves Price, “Communicating Across Difference: Co-Cultural Theory, Capital and Multicultural Families in Korea,” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 11, 2017, pp. 21-41.

Jungmi Ju, Bongki Woo, Joon K. Kim, Paul D. Kim, and Nanlan Zhang, “Asian Americans’ Communicative Responses to COVID-19 Discrimination in Application of Co-Cultural Theory,” The Howard Journal of Communications, Vol. 32 (3), 2021, pp. 309–27.

Karla D. Scott, “Communication Strategies Across Cultural Borders: Dispelling Stereotypes, Performing Competence, and Redefining Black Womanhood,” Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 36, 2013, pp. 312-329.

Melinda R. Weathers and Mark C. Hopson, “‘I Define What Hurts Me’: A Co-Cultural Theoretical Analysis of Communication Factors Related to Digital Dating Abuse,” Howard Journal of Communications, Vol. 26, 2015, pp. 95-113.

Michael L. Zirulnik and Mark Orbe, “Black Female Pilot Communicative Experiences: Applications and Extensions of Co-Cultural Theory,” The Howard Journal of Communications, Vol. 30 (1), 2019, pp. 76–91.

Educational settings

Amy Aldridge, Sanford, C. Kyle Rudick, Keith Nainby, Kathryn B. Golsan, Stephanie Rollie Rodriguez, and Christopher J. Claus, “‘’I Was Gonna Go Off, but My Best Friend Is White.’: Hispanic Students’ Co-Cultural Reasoning in a Hispanic Serving Institution,” Communication Quarterly, Vol. 67 (2), 2019, pp. 158–77.

Yadong Ji and Yea-Wen Chen, “‘Spat On and Coughed At’: Co-Cultural Understanding of Chinese International Students’ Experiences with Stigmatization during the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Health Communication, 2022, pp. 1–9.

Phyllis Ngai, “The Impact of Teachers' Communication Approach on Children's Co-Cultural Adaptation,” Journal of Intercultural Communication, Vol. 37, 2015.

C. Kyle Rudick, Michael Sollitto, Christopher J. Claus, Amy Aldridge Sanford, Keith Nainby, and Kathryn B. Golsan, “Comparing Hispanic-To-White Co-Cultural Communication at Four-Year, Public Hispanic Serving and Predominately White Institutions,” Communication Reports, Vol. 30, 2017, pp. 104-115.

Other teaching ideas

Mary Kate Brown and Roberta Chevrette, “Teaching Co-Cultural Theory, Dis/Ability, and Normativity Using The Greatest Showman,” Communication Teacher, Vol. 36 (2), 2022, pp. 133–39.

Elizabeth Root, “Staging Scenes of Co-Cultural Communication: Acting Out Aspects of Marginalized and Dominant Identities,” Communication Teacher, Vol. 32, 2018, pp. 13-18.