Ramos-Zayas Parenting Empires

Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0925-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas traces how parenting practices among urban elites in Brazil and Puerto Rico preserve and reproduce white privilege and economic inequality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
1. Parenting Empires and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Brazil and Puerto Rico 1
2. The Feel of Ipanema: Social History and Structure of Feeling in Rio de Janeiro 37
3. Parenting El Condado: Social History and Immaterial Materiality in San Juan 65
4. Whiteness from Within: Elite Interiority, Personhood, and Parenthood 95
5. Schooling Whiteness: Adult Friendships, Social Ease, and the Privilege of Choosing Race 127
6. The Extended Family: Intimate Hierarchies and Ancestral Imaginaries 157
7. Affective Inequalities: Childcare Workers and Elite Consumptions of Blackness 185
Epilogue 215
Notes 231
References 261
Index 277

Über Autor(innen)

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas is Professor of American Studies; Ethnicity, Race, and Migration; and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University and author of Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark and National Performances: The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago.