Draft:Racialized Emotions

Racialized Emotions

Racialized emotions are defined to be emotions that relate to race that are experienced when people engage in interracial interaction, or events within an individual’s daily life.. The original description of racialized emotions is seen in Racial Emotion in the Workplace by Tristin K. Green, which was published in 2013 . Green then categorizes racialized emotions by stating how they can be either positive or negative with common emotions such as anger and affection being recognized as racialized emotions (Green, 2013). The variety and intensity of these emotions depend on both the histories and experiences that the individuals bring into interactions and their environment . With this in mind, Green states that racial minorities are expected to feel anger, frustration, and anxiety due to the expectation of being judged by stereotypes and biases, while white individuals experience the same emotions in the situation of losing group-based advantage and being labeled racist . An example of this is shown in an interaction between a Black and white person where it is expected for the Black person to experience negative emotions when they interact with white people who are shown to be biased and discriminating against other Black people . With the information presented by Green, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva in his text named Feeling Race: Theorizing the Racial Economy of Emotions, which was published in 2019, expanded the definition of racialized emotions to include more than interracial interactions that are experienced daily . It is shown that Bonilla-Silva is the first to use the term racialized emotions instead of Green who used ‘racial emotions’ which provides the same definition and is used in the same scenarios . Bonilla-Silva explains that racialized emotions are not only limited to interracial interactions but can be experienced through various other means such as looking at a picture, watching a movie, or thinking about any given location . Bonilla-Silva also expanded the examples of positive racialized emotions since many others offer negative examples. An example of a positive racialized emotion is the satisfaction and pleasure seen in white people when they have domination over other races . Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South published by Corey J. Miles in 2023, showcases how racialized emotions operate in Black Life in Southern America . Miles makes an effort to showcase how Black emotions are seen as a spectacle and disregarded by white society and uses racialized emotions to explain what a Black person goes through during their daily lives . Miles makes it known that white people of the South are able to make Southern Black people feel the same racialized emotions that are mentioned by both Green and Bonilla-Silva . While also adding how racialized emotions can be seen and felt beyond social interactions such as how Miles focuses on hip-hop in the South and captures the soul of the South . Miles states that a song about the South can showcase a variety of emotions one of which is grief for the song Grandma Glovez due to how southern Black folks have a lot of pain within themselves and had to use this pain to build worlds that can not be reduced to pain