3515 - Racial Emotions in Jobs

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

This panel will examine the ways that emotional performance is a factor for workers of color in employment settings. Though there is a robust body of literature that connects organizational control to emotional expression, sociologists have been slower to assess how these links shape racial inequality. What sort of organizational control, if any, do institutions enact over the emotional states of workers of color? Are these norms institutionalized or informal? How exactly do these rules reproduce racial inequality, or possibly leave space to challenge it? In this session, panelists examine these questions to address how contemporary workplaces influence racial minority workers’ emotional expressions.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Adia M. Harvey Wingfield, Washington University-St. Louis

Individual Presentations

• Framing the Professional Pose: How Collegiate Black Men View the Performance of Professional Behaviors - Brandon A. Jackson, University of Arkansas

• Racial Emotions in Coworker Relations on the Job - Melissa Marie Sloan, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee

• Battling in the Bullies' House: Institutional Politics, Individual Practices, and Racialized Emotional Labor - Louwanda Evans, Millsaps College

• Black Women’s Burden: Race, Gender, and the Caricature of Anger - Enobong (Anna) Branch, University of Massachusetts-Amherst