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Impossible Burdens: White Institutions, Emotional Labor, and Micro-Resistance

Evans, Louwanda, Moore, Wendy Leo·2015·Social Problems

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This article explores the connections between white institutional spaces, emotional labor, and resistance by illuminating the shared experiences of people of color in elite law schools and the commercial aviation industry. Based on in-depth qualitative data combined from two individual studies, we illustrate the processes by which white institutional spaces create a complex environment where people of color must navigate racial narratives, ideologies, and discourses, while simultaneously attempting to achieve institutional success to reap the material rewards of these elite institutional settings. In these distinct environments, people of color experience an unequal distribution of emotional labor as a result of negotiating both everyday racial micro-aggressions and dismissive dominant ideologies that deny the relevance of race and racism. As a result they must actively seek ways to engage in forms of resistance that promote counter narratives and protect themselves from denigration while minimizing the risk of severe consequence. Our data suggest that a more nuanced conceptualization of resistance and the context in which resistance occurs is needed in order to understand the everyday experiences of people of color. Cargas Sociales imposibles: Instituciones consideradas de Blancos, Trabajo Emocional y Micro-Resistencia Louwanda Evans, Este artículo explora las conexiones entre los espacios institucionalestradicionalmente con mayoría de trabajadores blancos, trabajo emocional y la resistencia a través de las experiencias compartidas de la gente de color en las Facultades o Escuelas de élite de derecho y de la industria de la aviación comercial. A través de una investigacióncualitativacombinadacon dos estudios de caso individuales, los resultados muestran los procesos por los cuales estos espacios considerados de blancos crean un entorno complejo en el que la gente de color debelidiar con ideologías y discursos raciales, y al mismo tiempo que trata de lograr el éxito institucional para recoger la recompensas materiales que ofrecen estasinstitucionales elitistas. En estos ambientes distintos, las personas de color experimentan una distribución desigual del trabajo emocional como resultado de la negociacióntanto de las micro-agresiones cotidianas como de la ideologías dominante que niegan la relevancia de la raza y el racismo dentro ella.Como resultado, este grupo debe buscar activamente formas para enfrentarse a través de actos de resistencia que promuevan discursos contrarios y que les protegen del desmerito, pero, al mismo tiempo, reduciendoal mínimo el riesgode que tenga consecuencias graves para ellos. Nuestros datos sugieren que, para comprender las experiencias cotidianas de la gente de color en estos contextos, es necesaria una conceptualización más matizada de este enfrentamiento y del contexto en que se produce el mismo. .

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Authors
Evans, L., & Moore, W. L.
Venue
Social Problems
Published
2015-07-09
Volume
62
Issue
3
Pages
439-454
ISSN
  • 0037-7791 (ISSN-L)
  • 1533-8533
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255
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