Parenting Empires

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

Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478008217 (ISBN)

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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 “parenting empires,” 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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	28.03.2020
Zusatzinfo	13 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478008217 / 9781478008217
Zustand	Neuware