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

Acknowledgments ix
1. Parenting Empires and the Moral Economy of Privilege in Brazil and Puerto Rico 1
2. The Feel of Ipanema: Social History and Structure of Feeling in Rio de Janeiro 37
3. Parenting El Condado: Social History and Immaterial Materiality in San Juan 65
4. Whiteness from Within: Elite Interiority, Personhood, and Parenthood 95
5. Schooling Whiteness: Adult Friendships, Social Ease, and the Privilege of Choosing Race 127
6. The Extended Family: Intimate Hierarchies and Ancestral Imaginaries 157
7. Affective Inequalities: Childcare Workers and Elite Consumptions of Blackness 185
Epilogue 215
Notes 231
References 261
Index 277