Ramos-Zayas Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

Parenting Empires (eBook, PDF)

Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America

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Produktbeschreibung

In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of whiteness, privilege, and inequality reinforce national and hemispheric idioms of anti-corruption and austerity. Ramos-Zayas shows that for upper-class residents in the affluent neighborhoods of Ipanema (Rio de Janeiro) and El Condado (San Juan), parenting is particularly effective in providing moral grounding for neoliberal projects that disadvantage the overwhelmingly poor and racialized people who care for and teach their children. Wealthy parents in Ipanema and El Condado cultivate a liberal cosmopolitanism by living in multicultural city neighborhoods rather than gated suburban communities. Yet as Ramos-Zayas reveals, their parenting strategies, which stress spirituality, empathy, and equality, allow them to preserve and reproduce their white privilege. Defining this moral economy as "e;parenting empires,"e; she sheds light on how child-rearing practices permit urban elites in the Global South to sustain and profit from entrenched social and racial hierarchies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478009252
• Artikelnr.: 66282440

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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