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Latino Crossings

Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship

By: Nicholas De Genova,Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas

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Latino Crossings

Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship

By: Nicholas De Genova,Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas

Despite being lumped together by census data, there are deep divisions between Mexicans and Puerto Ricans living in the United States. Mexicans see Puerto Ricans as deceptive, disagreeable, nervous, rude, violent, and dangerous, while Puerto Ricans see Mexicans as submissive, gullible, naive, and folksy. The distinctly different styles of Spanish each group speaks reinforces racialized class differences. Despite these antagonistic divisions, these two groups do show some form of Latinidad, or a shared sense of Latin American identity. Latino Crossings examines how these constructions of Latino self and otherness interact with America's dominant white/black racial consciousness. Latino Crossings is a striking piece of scholarship that transcends the usually rigid boundary between Chicano/Mexican and Puerto Rican studies.

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Routledge

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1135952361

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Latino Crossings

Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship

By: Nicholas De Genova,Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas

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Latino Crossings

Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and the Politics of Race and Citizenship

By: Nicholas De Genova,Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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113595237X

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9781135952372

National Performances

The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago

By: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

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National Performances

The Politics of Class, Race, and Space in Puerto Rican Chicago

By: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

In this book, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas explores how Puerto Ricans in Chicago construct and perform nationalism. Contrary to characterizations of nationalism as a primarily unifying force, Ramos-Zayas finds that it actually provides the vocabulary to highlight distinctions along class, gender, racial, and generational lines among Puerto Ricans, as well as between Puerto Ricans and other Latino, black, and white populations. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, Ramos-Zayas shows how the performance of Puerto Rican nationalism in Chicago serves as a critique of social inequality, colonialism, and imperialism, allowing barrio residents and others to challenge the notion that upward social mobility is equally available to all Americans—or all Puerto Ricans. Paradoxically, however, these activists' efforts also promote upward social mobility, overturning previous notions that resentment and marginalization are the main results of nationalist strategies. Ramos-Zayas's groundbreaking work allows her here to offer one of the most original and complex analyses of contemporary nationalism and Latino identity in the United States.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226703592

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9780226703596

Street Therapists

Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark

By: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

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Street Therapists

Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark

By: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in Street Therapists,examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the navigation of interracial relationships among US-born Latinos, Latin American migrants, blacks, and white ethnics. Tackling a rarely studied dynamic approach to affect, Ramos-Zayas offers a thorough—and sometimes paradoxical—new articulation of race, space, and neoliberalism in US urban communities. After looking at the historical, political, and economic contexts in which an intensified connection between affect and race has emerged in Newark, New Jersey, Street Therapists engages in detailed examinations of various community sites—including high schools, workplaces, beauty salons, and funeral homes, among others—and secondary sites in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and San Juan to uncover the ways US-born Latinos and Latin American migrants interpret and analyze everyday racial encounters through a language of psychology and emotions. As Ramos-Zayas notes, this emotive approach to race resurrects Latin American and Caribbean ideologies of “racial democracy” in an urban US context—and often leads to new psychological stereotypes and forms of social exclusion. Extensively researched and thoughtfully argued, Street Therapists theorizes the conflictive connection between race, affect, and urban neoliberalism.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226703614

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9780226703619

Parenting Empires

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

By: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

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Parenting Empires

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

By: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

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.

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Duke University Press

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147800925X

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9781478009252

Book's by Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas

Latino Crossings

Latino Crossings

Latino Crossings

Latino Crossings

National Performances

National Performances

Street Therapists

Street Therapists

Parenting Empires

Parenting Empires

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