Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America Ramos-Zayas Ana Y.
Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America Ramos-Zayas Ana Y. In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas shows that for upper-class residents in the…
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Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America Ramos-Zayas Ana Y.
In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. 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. 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.
Yet as Ramos-Zayas reveals, their parenting strategies, which stress spirituality, empathy, and equality, allow them to preserve and reproduce Wealthy parents in Ipanema and El Condado cultivate a liberal cosmopolitanism by living in multicultural city neighborhoods rather than gated suburban communities.