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

by Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478008210
• ISBN13: 9781478008217
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"