Jordan Soliz (Ph.D., University of Kansas) is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He studies intergroup processes in family and personal relationships to understand communicative dynamics associated with individual and relational well-being. Dr. Soliz is past editor of Journal of Family Communication.

Colleen Warner Colaner (Ph.D., University of Missouri) is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Missouri. She studies family communication, with a focus on complex family structures and children's communication experiences.

Colleen Warner Colaner/Jordan Soliz: Preface - Craig Fowler/Andrea Zorn: Age Identity and Intergenerational Relationships in the Family - Tina M. Harris/FarrahYoun-Heil/Hue T. Duong: Negotiating and Communicating about Identity Within Multi-Ethnic/ Multi-Racial Families - Stella Ting-Toomey/Laura V. Martinez: Navigating Interfaith Family Communication: Research Trends and Applied Implications - Benjamin R. Warner/Jihye Park: Communication and Political Difference in the Family - Jimmie Manning: Queering Family Communication - Debbie S. Dougherty/MarcusW. Ferguson, Jr./Natilie Williams: Social Class and Social Mobility: Considerations for Family Communication - Jennifer A. Kam/Roselia Mendez Murillo/Monica Cornejo: Immigration and Family Communication: Resilience, Solidarity, and Thriving - Aparna Hebbani/Mairead MacKinnon: Examining Communication and Identity Within Refugee Families - Angela L. Palmer-Wackerly/Heather L. Voorhees: Illness Identity Within the Family-And Beyond - Colleen Warner Colaner/LaShawnda Kilgore: Adoptee Identity, Belonging, and Communication with Birth and Adoptive Families - Leslie R. Nelson/LindseyJ. Thomas: Communicating Family: Identity and Difference in the Context of Foster Care - Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart/Sarah R. Heisdorf: Communicatively Managing In-Law Relationships - Paul Schrodt: Identity, Relational Solidarity, and Stepfamily Communication - Christine E. Rittenour: Family Socialization of "Otherness" - About the Authors - Index.