The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies

ISBN-13: 9780367465308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 568 str.

Mario Barbosa Cruz; A. Ricardo López-Pedreros; Claudia Stern

Opis

This book’s broadest purpose is to assess the formation, representations, and complex political, social, and cultural contributions of the middle classes since the mid-19th century in a variety of national cases in Latin America.

Spis treści

Foreword, 1. Introduction: "For the First Time Ever", Part I: Liberalism, the Idea of Race, and Neoliberalism, Introduction to Part I, 2. "São Paulo is Modernity": Middle-Class Identity and Narratives of Exceptionalism in Brazil, 3. Uneven Development and the Concept of the Middle Class: Costa Rica, 1890–1950, 4. The Ordeal of Decency: A Perspective on Mexico City’s Urban Space and Middle Classes (1952–1966), 5. Gender, Race, and the Evolution of Middle-class Identity in the Mexico City Press, 1820-1900, 6. Escaping the Carimbas: An Intersectional Analysis of "Black" Middle-Class Trajectories in Colombia, Part II: Labor, Consumption, and Political Disparities, Introduction to Part II, 7. Sales Knowledge, Labor Mobility, and Working-Class Identity: Store Clerks (Argentina, 1900–1940), 8. The Cost of Love: Middle Classes, Consumption, and Sentimentalism in Mexico (1880–1920), 9. Tango, Morality, and Nostalgia in the Making of a Middle-Class Subjectivity in Argentina, 10. Public-Sector Employment, the Middle Classes, and Social Position in Mexico City in the Early 1900s, 11. "Cheerful, Attentive, and Polite": Store Clerks and the Middle Class in Early-Twentieth-Century Mexico City, Part III: The State, Social Movements, and the Cold War, Introduction to Part III, 12. The Middle Classes and Anti-Communism During the Cárdenas Presidency in Mexico: Nationalist Dynamics in a Transnational Framework, 13. "Tigers, Cholo-Jacobins, and Red Government Officials": Roles and Discourses of the Radical Middle Class in Ecuador Between 1895 and 1938, 14. Towards a New Cultural Sociology of the Latin American Middle Class: Ecuador’s Middle-Class Revolution as a Collective Representation, 15. Silences, Confessions, and Taboos: Petit Bourgeoise’s Dissident Memories of Political Radicalization in Bogotá, 16. "Young People Committed to the Motherland": Middle Class Masculinity, Radicalization, and the Fragmentation of the "Integral Chileans" in the 1970s, Part IV: Social Mobility, Neoliberal Discourses, and the "Pink Tide", Introduction to Part IV, 17. A "Middle-Class Country": Social Mobility, Progress, and Genealogical Origins in the Public Discourse in Argentina (2002–2015), 18. Middle-Class Sensorial: Conceptualizing the Experience of Inhabiting "the Middle" in Brazil’s Post-Neoliberal Public Housing, 19. Residential Practices of Three Generations of a Middle-Class Family: Mortgages, Honor, and Inequalities in Mexico City, 20. Class Transvestism in Chile: When the Poor Became Middle Class, 21. Taxonomy, Identity, Mode of Being, or Political Project?: Epistemologies of "Middle Class" in Latin America Since 1948, 22. From White-Collar Employment to Managerial Influence Among the Middle Class in Early-Twenty-First Century Mexico City, 23. Equality or Hierarchy? Solidarity with Those Above or Below?: Dilemmas of Gendered Self- Identification in a New Bolivian Middle Class  Miriam Shakow  Epilogue: "Was It Worth Coming?": The Global Drama of Middle-Class Lives in Latin America