Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

Parenting Empires

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 158mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007746
• ISBN-10: 1478007745
• Artikelnr.: 56976447

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