Racialized Emotion Management among Asian Americans in the Professional Workplace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2245015 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allison Jin Sullivan (Emory University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 139-155 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/socpro/spae057 |
| OpenAlex | W4403241538 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 33 |
Despite growing interest in the racialization of emotion management and evidence that this racialization varies across different racial groups, minimal scholarship has attempted to interrogate how Asian Americans experience racialized feeling rules or perform racialized emotion management in the workplace. Using qualitative interviews with 35 Asian American professionals to examine these processes, I find that controlling images about Asians, particularly the 'model minority' stereotype, shape the feeling rules they encounter and constrain their access to certain forms of emotional expression. Additionally, racial incidents within and outside of the workplace heighten their need to perform emotion management, which is particularly relevant given recent upticks in anti-Asian violence. This study reveals how controlling images lead to racialized feeling rules for Asian Americans and how, conversely, their racialized emotion management can reinforce stereotypes. At the same time, it shows how Asian Americans continue to experience racialization, with important implications, both within the workplace and beyond
Asian americans · Criminology · Demographic economics · Economics · Ethnic group · Sociology · Anthropology · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
Managing Multicultural Lives
Ideal Affect
Explaining Asian Americans’ academic advantage over whites
Myth of the Model Minority
Stereotype Content Model Explains Prejudice for an Envied Outgroup
The Managed Heart
Mining the mind
Rise of anti-Asian violence and the Covid-19 pandemic for Asian Americans
Asian Americans and workplace discrimination
Sexual Harassment, Racial Harassment, and Well-Being among Asian American Women
Race Doesn't Matter, but
The Earnings of Less Educated Asian American Men
Hyper-selectivity and the remaking of culture
From bi-racial to tri-racial
Have Asian American Men Achieved Labor Market Parity with White Men
Settler Colonialism as Structure
Are Some Emotions Marked 'Whites Only'? Racialized Feeling Rules in Professional Workplaces
Honorary Whites? Asian American Women and the Dominance Penalty
The Gendered Racialization of Asian Women as Villainous Temptresses
The Deadly Challenges of Raising African American Boys
Intersecting Cultural Beliefs in Social Relations
The Managed Hand
Reciprocal Emotion Management
Flexible Coding of In-depth Interviews
The Emotionalization of Reflexivity
The (Un)Managed Heart
Socioeconomic Attainments of Asian Americans
Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure
Revisiting the Asian second-generation advantage
Theorizing emotional capital
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |