Malissa Alinor, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, and Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill
How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: A Framework for Understanding Emotional Reactions to Racial Discrimination
Emotional reactions to racial discrimination are a component of the racialized emotions that people of color experience in their everyday lives. There is an abundance of research demonstrating the many ways that interpersonal racial discrimination is enacted (e.g., subtle v. overt). However, it is not clear how these different forms of discrimination are related to the emotional reactions of those who are targeted. Based on interview data from Black and Asian Americans, this talk introduces a framework for understanding emotional reactions to racial discrimination along two dimensions- hostility and overtness. Additionally, I outline how the structural experiences of racial groups with racial discrimination may shape emotions that are commonly stereotyped with them.
