Melancholia acts as an everyday social experience for people of color.
Immigration, assimilation, and racialization involve negotiation between mourning and melancholia, meaning they are not pathological or permanent.
They looked for a deeper understanding of Asian American mental health partially through the lense of Freud’s work in Melancholia, but evolving it into a more fluid flow of different emotions. Beginning with much emphasis on Melancholia, yet building up to other emotions, such as mourning or self-contempt as inevitable but ever changing emotions in Asian Americans everyday lives.