Abstract Requests for forgiveness can effectively silence and delegitimize anger, and requests to publicly perform emotional labor can effectively make that labor both required and undervalued. I focus on interviews and press conferences between 2014 and 2016 with police shooting mourners Esaw Garner, Lesley McSpadden, Samaria Rice, Audrey DuBose, and Valerie Castile. I show how these Black women resist racist calls to deprive them of their anger and right to seek justice, refusing to suture the social crisis of police violence with their emotional labor. On television, the news context obscures the entertainment value of anger and grief that partly motivates these requests. I argue that speakers are well aware of the way supposedly angry, supposedly violent affect gets judged on the Black body in the public sphere. Family members resist the pressure to forgive—a form of resistance that insists on the right to anger in the public sphere—while strategically maintaining a reasonable demeanor.

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保持愤怒：美国警察枪击事件中黑人女性对种族化宽恕的抵制

摘要 请求宽恕可以有效地平息愤怒并使愤怒失去合法性，而公开进行情感劳动的请求可以有效地使这种劳动既被需要又被低估。我专注于 2014 年至 2016 年与警方枪击哀悼者 Esaw Garner、Lesley McSpadden、Samaria Rice、Audrey DuBose 和 Valerie Castile 的采访和新闻发布会。我展示了这些黑人女性如何抵制种族主义呼吁，剥夺她们的愤怒和寻求正义的权利，拒绝用她们的情感劳动来缝合警察暴力的社会危​​机。在电视上，新闻背景掩盖了部分激发这些要求的愤怒和悲伤的娱乐价值。我认为，演讲者很清楚在公共领域对黑人身体的判断方式，即所谓的愤怒、所谓的暴力影响。