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Parenting Empires: Class, Whiteness, and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Latin America,Used
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In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. RamosZayas 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 anticorruption and austerity. RamosZayas shows that for upperclass 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 RamosZayas 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 childrearing practices permit urban elites in the Global South to sustain and profit from entrenched social and racial hierarchies.
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