‘For the betterment of kids who look like me’: professional emotional labour as a racial project

Racial Formation Theory and Systemic Racism in Hip‐Hop Fans’ Perceptions

“…Scholars have examined how RFT appears in everyday interactions with television shows, media discourse, and video games (Brock , ; Buffington and Fraley ), and how it relates to emotion and the workplace (Froyum ; Wingfield ), material and structural practices (Park and Pellow ), class formation (Jung ; Sallaz ), and racial stratification (Massey ). Critics claim that RFT minimizes the persistence of a racist legacy, does not emphasize whites as agents in creating the racial project, and the theory focuses too much on individual racialized interactions rather than structural processes (Dennis ; Feagin and Elias ; Wingfield ).…”

Anti-black racism and community violence: an autoethnography of the experiences of a black male social worker in community settings

“…Starting from a point where community resources are already scarce, there is rarely any additional room to consider building in supports for the actual worker who is to deliver the program and/or who interfaces with the population being served. Without front-line workers who willingly wear many different hats (i.e., counsellor, program staff, grant writer, fund manager, program coordinator, community liaison, family mediator and so on) in order to provide better supports for the youth, organizational programs and services might not be as successful (see Froyum, 2013).…”

“…Workers often go above and beyond their role of employment in order to ensure that the children are well-supported. Froyum (2013) reported that "workers created a 'home' or 'family' at work by integrating children into their emotional lives and making themselves readily available" (Froyum, 2013(Froyum, , p. 1077). The way anti-Black racism engages with Black communities to produce a lack of resources, lower socio-economic conditions, and the needs of Black youth, impacts how Black service providers engages with youth populations because they often use their own means and resources (emotional, psychological and financial) to account for the visible lack.…”

Developing a Practice of African-Centred Solidarity in Child and Youth Care

“…Although these authors have added valuable concepts to the literature, they lack a critical lens to be able to interpret the deeply embedded role of race in determining, for instance, who bears the burden of proof for racially unjust experiences, a lens that can arguably only be developed through a firsthand lived experience of racial injustice. Far too often the power of racial burden is ignored in these writings (Bonilla-Silva, 2012;Froyum, 2013), and, as is experienced in the daily dynamics of racial inequity, it is up to racialized scholars to challenge and expand our ideas of what is and isn't possible in transformative youth work and social relations. Our hope is to add to this call for voices and open up the conversation by drawing upon Black and African-centred worldviews.…”