The Middle Classes in Latin America (eBook, PDF)

Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies
Redaktion: Barbosa Cruz, Mario; Stern, Claudia; López-Pedreros, A. Ricardo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book's broadest purpose is to assess the formation, representations, and complex political, social, and cultural contributions of the middle classes since the mid-19th century in a variety of national cases in Latin America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 524
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000605655
• Artikelnr.: 64110408

Autorenporträt

Mario Barbosa Cruz is Professor in the Humanities Department at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. A. Ricardo López-Pedreros is Professor of History at Western Washington University Claudia Stern is Research Associate at The Latin American Centre for the History of Housing CEIHVAL and lecturer at the MEUVAL at the Architecture, Design and Urban Studies Faculty at Universidad de Buenos Aires, FADU-UBA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1. Introduction: "For the First Time Ever"
Part I: Liberalism
the Idea of Race
and Neoliberalism
Introduction to Part I
2. "São Paulo is Modernity": Middle-Class Identity and Narratives of Exceptionalism in Brazil
3. Uneven Development and the Concept of the Middle Class: Costa Rica
1890-1950
4. The Ordeal of Decency: A Perspective on Mexico City's Urban Space and Middle Classes (1952-1966)
5. Gender
Race
and the Evolution of Middle-class Identity in the Mexico City Press
1820-1900
6. Escaping the Carimbas: An Intersectional Analysis of "Black" Middle-Class Trajectories in Colombia
Part II: Labor
Consumption
and Political Disparities
Introduction to Part II
7. Sales Knowledge
Labor Mobility
and Working-Class Identity: Store Clerks (Argentina
1900-1940)
8. The Cost of Love: Middle Classes
Consumption
and Sentimentalism in Mexico (1880-1920)
9. Tango
Morality
and Nostalgia in the Making of a Middle-Class Subjectivity in Argentina
10. Public-Sector Employment
the Middle Classes
and Social Position in Mexico City in the Early 1900s
11. "Cheerful
Attentive
and Polite": Store Clerks and the Middle Class in Early-Twentieth-Century Mexico City
Part III: The State
Social Movements
and the Cold War
Introduction to Part III
12. The Middle Classes and Anti-Communism During the Cárdenas Presidency in Mexico: Nationalist Dynamics in a Transnational Framework
13. "Tigers
Cholo-Jacobins
and Red Government Officials": Roles and Discourses of the Radical Middle Class in Ecuador Between 1895 and 1938
14. Towards a New Cultural Sociology of the Latin American Middle Class: Ecuador's Middle-Class Revolution as a Collective Representation
15. Silences
Confessions
and Taboos: Petit Bourgeoise's Dissident Memories of Political Radicalization in Bogotá
16. "Young People Committed to the Motherland": Middle Class Masculinity
Radicalization
and the Fragmentation of the "Integral Chileans" in the 1970s
Part IV: Social Mobility
Neoliberal Discourses
and the "Pink Tide"
Introduction to Part IV
17. A "Middle-Class Country": Social Mobility
Progress
and Genealogical Origins in the Public Discourse in Argentina (2002-2015)
18. Middle-Class Sensorial: Conceptualizing the Experience of Inhabiting "the Middle" in Brazil's Post-Neoliberal Public Housing
19. Residential Practices of Three Generations of a Middle-Class Family: Mortgages
Honor
and Inequalities in Mexico City
20. Class Transvestism in Chile: When the Poor Became Middle Class
21. Taxonomy
Identity
Mode of Being
or Political Project?: Epistemologies of "Middle Class" in Latin America Since 1948
22. From White-Collar Employment to Managerial Influence Among the Middle Class in Early-Twenty-First Century Mexico City
23. Equality or Hierarchy? Solidarity with Those Above or Below?: Dilemmas of Gendered Self- Identification in a New Bolivian Middle Class Miriam Shakow Epilogue: "Was It Worth Coming?": The Global Drama of Middle-Class Lives in Latin America