Consuming Race

Pitcher, Ben

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“…These reflections also make clearer the way in which conversations about race and whiteness are just as anxiety-laden for white educators, particularly when we feel we are 'losing control' or 'stumped' by challenging comments. Pitcher (2014) suggests, anxiety often accompanies engagement with racialised representations that are not our own. He says, 'this anxiety can be understood as being produced by the absence of a fundamental underlying truth to a culture' (p. 41).…”

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A Healthy Dose of Race? White Students’ and Teachers’ Unintentional Brushes with Whiteness

Schulz

Fane

2015

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A Healthy Dose of Race? White Students’ and Teachers’ Unintentional Brushes with Whiteness

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Fane

2015

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“…Such ‘culture talk’ (Mamdani ; Alexander ) reads claims to, performances of, and social outcomes tied to categories of ethnic difference as epiphenomenal instantiations of the discrete culture within which the relevant subject is putatively nestled . The sociological orthodoxy here is to consider the subject a transparent symptom of the ethnic culture from which she/he ostensibly emerges (Pitcher : 20–1). Given the long‐standing critique as developed, for instance, by Gilroy () – who offered the term ‘ethnic absolutism’ to capture this analytic indexing of culture to racial and ethnic identities – it is apparent that ‘culturalist’ accounts are poorly positioned to read identities of difference as ascribed positions and, secondly, as relationally constituted phenomena that operate within broader encounters with ethno‐national normativity.…”

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Racial entanglements and sociological confusions: repudiating the rehabilitation of integration

Valluvan

2017

British Journal of Sociology

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In line with the broader nationalist advances currently remaking the Western political landscape, the concept of integration has witnessed a marked rehabilitation. Whilst many influential critiques of the sociology of integration are already available, this article contests the concept's renewed purchase through addressing its own internal incoherence. Based on research in Stockholm, this critique concerns the relationship between ethnic identity and cultural integration. It will be argued that integration and the production of difference are intertwined, entangled dualities, and far from being a benign entanglement, this duality is premised on the force and reach of everyday civic racisms. Of pivotal and unique analytical significance here is the observation that racism should not only be considered an exogenous process that impedes integration, but as a multifaceted phenomenon folded into integration.

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“…Racism and race play are historically rooted in the transatlantic slave trade in the United States. However, individuals no longer feel the need to hide their racism behind closed doors (Mueller, Dirks, & Picca, ; Mueller et al, ; Pitcher, ). In the age when civil discourse is simultaneously called for and neglected by White bodies in power, the constant interaction with racism can take an enhanced toll on Black and Brown social media users, resulting in racial battle fatigue.…”

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Uncompensated emotional labor, racial battle fatigue, and (in)civility in digital spaces

2019

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Emotional labor was originally theorized by Arlie Hochschild in the context of domestic labor. Since her early theorization, popular culture and social scientists have adopted the term to refer to emotion work that is exhibited in a manner of financially compensated social settings. Emotional labor refers to the process by which individuals are expected to conform to a set of societal guidelines, ensuring that their emotions conform to that performance. As the use of social media grows, emotional labor plays an increasing role in the lives of people of color—across media platforms. We frame the ever‐present negotiation involved in racialized interactions online as a type of uncompensated emotional labor that results in racial battle fatigue. Next, we position emotional labor as an intrinsic part of the experience for social media users of color because digital media is by default a White, racialized space. Lastly, we argue that current research on civility does not account for the emotional labor of people of color. We offer an original view of uncompensated emotional labor that is inclusive of cross‐platform, racialized emotional labor that can result in racial battle fatigue.

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Consuming Race

Cited by 44 publications

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A Healthy Dose of Race? White Students’ and Teachers’ Unintentional Brushes with Whiteness

A Healthy Dose of Race? White Students’ and Teachers’ Unintentional Brushes with Whiteness

Racial entanglements and sociological confusions: repudiating the rehabilitation of integration

Uncompensated emotional labor, racial battle fatigue, and (in)civility in digital spaces

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