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Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America
by Ramos-Zayas, Ana Yolanda
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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 those who care for and teach their children, who are overwhelmingly poor and racialized. 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, actually allow them to preserve and reproduce their white privilege. Defining this moral economy as "parenting empires," she sheds light on how, through child-rearing, urban elites in the global South sustain and profit from entrenched social and racial hierarchies.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Ramos-Zayas, Ana Yolanda
- ISBN: 9781478008217
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.80
- Number Of Pages: 296
- Publication Year: 2020