Demands, displays, and dreams of "Black joy" during times of crisis

Sobande, Francesca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4788-4099 and Amponsah, Emma-Lee 2024. Demands, displays, and dreams of "Black joy" during times of crisis. Ethnic and Racial Studies 10.1080/01419870.2024.2362461

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Abstract

Based on collaborative research and reflections on media depictions, marketplace experiences, and Black life in Belgium and Britain, this article embraces Black joy, while critiquing societal demands and (re)presentations of it. Informed by scholarship on racialised emotions, Black interiority, and Black emotional epistemologies, we analyse how the idea of “Black joy” has been (re)presented in media in ways connected to racialised, classed, and national discourses of “we-ness” during the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. By analysing public (re)presentations of Black people, we critically consider how “Black joy” becomes “Black JoyTM” – a defanged expression, enabling brand advertising by tapping into the racial and capitalist politics of marketable and mediated Black emotions and intimacy. We ask, “when, how, and why are the everyday emotions and experiences of Black people (re)presented by contemporary marketplace institutions as joyful?”. Consequently, we theorise the relationship between Black joy, crises, and forms of Belgian and British advertising and media.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	0141-9870
Funders:	ESRC, AHRC
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	12 July 2024
Date of Acceptance:	20 May 2024
Last Modified:	05 Aug 2024 15:11
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/170550

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