The Middle Classes in Latin America: Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies
In: Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
In: Routledge studies in the history of the Americas
"As a collective effort, this volume locates the formation of the middle classes at the core of the histories of Latin America in the last two centuries. Featuring scholars from different places across the Americas, it is an interdisciplinary contribution to the world histories of the middle classes, histories of Latin America, and intersectional studies. It also engages a larger audience about the importance of the middle classes to understand modernity, democracy, neoliberalism, and decoloniality. By including research produced from a variety of Latin American, North American, and other audiences, the volume incorporates trends in social history, cultural studies and discursive theory. It situates analytical categories of race and gender at the core of class formation. This volume seeks to initiate a critical and global conversation concerning the ways in which the analysis of the middle classes provides crucial re-readings of how Latin America, as a region, has historically been understood"--
In: Routledge Studies in the History of the Americas
In: Routledge studies in the history of the Americas
"As a collective effort, this volume locates the formation of the middle classes at the core of the histories of Latin America in the last two centuries. Featuring scholars from different places across the Americas, it is an interdisciplinary contribution to the world histories of the middle classes, histories of Latin America, and intersectional studies. It also engages a larger audience about the importance of the middle classes to understand modernity, democracy, neoliberalism, and decoloniality. By including research produced from a variety of Latin American, North American, and other audiences, the volume incorporates trends in social history, cultural studies and discursive theory. It situates analytical categories of race and gender at the core of class formation. This volume seeks to initiate a critical and global conversation concerning the ways in which the analysis of the middle classes provides crucial re-readings of how Latin America, as a region, has historically been understood"--
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Introduction: "For the First Time Ever" -- The Middle Class and its Discontents: Theoretical Problematizations -- Beyond the Elision Hypothesis: Narrative Problematizations -- A Middle Class Worthy of its Name: Historical Problematizations -- Notes -- Part I: Liberalism, the Idea of Race, and Neoliberalism: Introduction to Part I -- Notes -- Chapter 2: "São Paulo is Modernity": Middle-Class Identity and Narratives of Exceptionalism in Brazil -- Regionalism, Transnationalism, and Middle-Class Identity in São Paulo -- First, the Rehabilitated Historical Figure: The Bandeirante as Middle-Class Striver -- Next, the Contested Meaning of a Political Epithet, Or… Who Are You Calling an Oligarch? -- Bourgeois Industrialists in an Age of Italian Counts Or… Knowledge as Power (I) -- And Now, the Urban Planner as Maker of the Middle Class: Knowledge as Power (II) -- And Finally, the Uprising against Vargas: 1932: The Middle Class in Arms -- The Rule of Law = Democracy? -- The Middle Class: Makers of Fascism? -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Uneven Development and the Concept of the Middle Class: Costa Rica, 1890-1950 -- A Prehistory of the Costa Rican Middle Class: 1890-1930 -- The Emergence of the Middle Class : 1930-1940 -- An Anti-Communist Middle Class : The 1940s -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Ordeal of Decency: A Perspective on Mexico City's Urban Space and Middle Classes (1952-1966) -- Introduction -- Decency: Socio-spatial Order and Consumption -- Decency, Sexuality, and Discontinuities of the Sociospatial Order -- Conclusions -- Notes.
In: Routledge studies in the history of the Americas 31
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