2316 - Young Voices: Race, Power, and Economies of Emotions

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Description

The relationship between race and emotions has often been studied by focusing on marginalized groups, emphasizing the burdens of race-based emotional labor and the impact of racial micro aggressions. In this panel, we make power more visible by highlighting the ways that white supremacy structures the emotional experiences of whites. The panel will address how racialized economies of emotions ultimately reflect and reinforce white supremacy, and it will explore the role of affective labor and affective capital in this process. Taken together, the panelists offer new avenues that connect race and emotion more explicitly to power and centralize the role of emotion in the emergence and maintenance of racial projects.

Sub Unit

• Thematic Sessions

Session Organizer

• Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, University of South Florida

Individual Presentations

• How to Fight White Rage and Resentment When Sociological Facts Fail to Make a Difference - Paula Ioanide, Ithaca College

• Affective Labor in the (Re)Making of Racial Power - James Michael Thomas, University of Mississippi

• Affective Capital: A New Theoretical Direction for Studies of Emotions and Power - Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, University of South Florida

• The Legacy of Emotional Segregation: Barriers to an Integrated Society - Angie K Beeman, City University of New York-Baruch College

Discussant

• Amy C. Wilkins, University of Colorado-Boulder