Street Therapists Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark

Name: Street Therapists Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark
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ISBN: 9780226703626

ISBN-10: 0226703622

ISBN-13: 9780226703626

Edition: 2012

Authors: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

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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…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.92" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


Introduction:.Street Therapists: Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark



The Feel That Sells Newark: From "Aggressive" City to Neoliberal-Friendly Emotional Regime



Delinquent Citizenship: Self-Help Organizations, Military Recruitment, and the Politics of Worth in Puerto Rican Newark



Cartography of Racial Democracy: Cultural Excess, Racial Play, and Universal Sentimentality in Luso-Brazilian Newark



Real-Life Telenovelas, Self-Care, and Stereotypes of the Tropics: Sexing Race and Emotion in the City



Of "Black Lesbians," Hate Crimes, and Crime-Talk: The Sexuality of "Aggression" in the City



Learning Affect, Embodying Race: Cosmopolitan Competency and Urban Emotional Epistemologies


Final Remarks and Reflections


Notes


References


Index