A Y Ramos-Zayas
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 13102 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A Y Ramos-Zayas |
| NOMBRES | A Y |
| APELLIDO | Ramos-Zayas |
| FIRMA | RAMOS-ZAYAS A Y |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9742-5555 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Disrupting the social by centering the self
This article examines how life coaching, as practiced by Latinx and Latin American coaches in the United States, yielded new audiences and forms of sociability and provided conceptions of parenting as a contested practice, as defined in this special issue, for women who did not have children (either by circumstance or choice). These life coaching practices measured personal transformation in terms of how effectively individuals changed the inner …
Forging a psychological solidarity
Therapeutic cultures in elite families in Brazil
Studies of wealth and the family have provided important insights into how financial and legal institutions allow the long-term perpetuation of fortunes, such as inheritance and trust laws, as well as examining the role of family offices and philanthropy as practices that upper-class families use to preserve their wealth across generations. Such scholarship has noticed that a flip side of this is that the family, as a unit involved in the preserv…
A conceptual roadmap for the study of whiteness in Latin America
This introductory essay outlines and contributes to fulfill the major goals of this special issue: 1) The examination of whiteness in Latin America in its articulation with broader social hierarchies, and 2) The development of a conceptual and theoretical roadmap for the study of whiteness in the region. The essay is divided into five substantive sections through which we develop our main arguments. In the first section, we offer a brief and admi…
"Borders, Terror, and Puerto Rican "Delinquent Citizenship
Borders, Terror, and Puerto Rican "Delinquent Citizenship" Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas (bio) Twenty years ago, in May 2002, a reporter from a nationally renowned US news magazine asked me about José Padilla, otherwise known as Abdullah al-Muhajir, the so-called Puerto Rican Taliban. A thirty-one-year-old US citizen, Padilla had been arrested at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago for allegedly plotting a bomb attack and having links to the Al Qaeda te…
Ordinary Whiteness
Parenting Empires
Sovereign Parenting' in Affluent Latin American Neighbourhoods
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted among parents living in the affluent neighbourhoods of Ipanema, Brazil, and El Condado, Puerto Rico, I examine how urban Latin American elites deployed their parenting practices as moral justification for their racial and class privilege (what I call 'sovereign parenting'). One way in which they do this is by producing particular forms of affective relationships with their nannies. The women these upper-…
Street Therapists
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 som…
Oneka LaBennett, She's Mad Real
Learning Affect, Embodying Race
This article examines everyday constructions of racial subjects, the affective worlds of those subjects, and the potential material consequences behind emotional ethos that are oftentimes in alignment with the interests of state and market imperatives. Under neoliberalism, there has been an intensification in the cultural standardization and organization of feelings and sentiments (Haskell 1985). I examine how feelings and sentiments intersect wi…
Urban Erotics and Racial Affect in a Neoliberal “Racial Democracy”
This essay examines the power-evasive reduction of “race,” racial conflict, and racial subordination from the terrain of the social, material, and structural to the “private” realm of affect and emotions, in an effort to explain how neoliberalism operates in the everyday lives of U.S.-born Latino and Latin American migrant youth, particularly, young, working-class Puerto Rican and Brazilian women in Newark, New Jersey. A main argument of this pro…
Becoming American, Becoming Black? Urban Competency, Racialized Spaces, and the Politics of Citizenship Among Brazilian and Puerto Rican Youth in Newark
This essay examines the performance of “race,” particularly the appropriation of “Blackness,” among U.S.-born Latinos and Latin American migrants in two neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey. A main argument of this essay is that “Blackness”—a performance of race somewhat detached from actual Black bodies and often associated with Puerto Ricans in Newark—has become a more valued benchmark of belongingness among Latin American migrants than “whitene…
Brazilian Immigrants in the United States
Latino Crossings
Delinquent Citizenship, National Performances
Transnational Latina/o Communities
Book Review| July 01 2004 Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez and Anna Sampaio. Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (4): 187–188. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501516 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Implicit Social Knowledge, Cultural Capital, and "Authenticity" among Puerto Ricans in Chicago
In their countries of origin, Latin American and Caribbean migrants to the United States have been designated by various terms suggesting their cultural impurity. In Venezuela, tabaratos were citizens who migrated to Miami in the midst of the 1970s oil boom because the change from bolivares to dollars favored them and found that everything (es)ta barato (is cheap). Pochos in Mexico, gusanos in Cuba, and, most recently, dominicayork' and brazucos …
National Performances
Latino Racial Formations in the United States
Latino Rehearsals
Este ensayo explora las posibilidades y los obstáculos para que surja un sentido mutuo de identidad "latina", o latinidad, entre dos de los grupos latinoamericanos de mayor presencia numérica e histórica en los Estados Unidos. Basado en investigaciones etnográficas en Chicago, una de las pocas ciudades donde los mexicanos y puertorriqueños han residido por décadas, este estudio analiza las relaciones socio‐políticas entre puertorriqueños y migran…
Latino Racial Formations in the United States
Latino Rehearsals
Delinquent Citizenship, National Performances
Transnational Latina/o Communities
Book Review| July 01 2004 Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez and Anna Sampaio. Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (4): 187–188. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501516 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Disrupting the social by centering the self
This article examines how life coaching, as practiced by Latinx and Latin American coaches in the United States, yielded new audiences and forms of sociability and provided conceptions of parenting as a contested practice, as defined in this special issue, for women who did not have children (either by circumstance or choice). These life coaching practices measured personal transformation in terms of how effectively individuals changed the inner …
Therapeutic cultures in elite families in Brazil
Studies of wealth and the family have provided important insights into how financial and legal institutions allow the long-term perpetuation of fortunes, such as inheritance and trust laws, as well as examining the role of family offices and philanthropy as practices that upper-class families use to preserve their wealth across generations. Such scholarship has noticed that a flip side of this is that the family, as a unit involved in the preserv…
Forging a psychological solidarity
"Borders, Terror, and Puerto Rican "Delinquent Citizenship
Borders, Terror, and Puerto Rican "Delinquent Citizenship" Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas (bio) Twenty years ago, in May 2002, a reporter from a nationally renowned US news magazine asked me about José Padilla, otherwise known as Abdullah al-Muhajir, the so-called Puerto Rican Taliban. A thirty-one-year-old US citizen, Padilla had been arrested at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago for allegedly plotting a bomb attack and having links to the Al Qaeda te…
Ordinary Whiteness
Sovereign Parenting' in Affluent Latin American Neighbourhoods
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted among parents living in the affluent neighbourhoods of Ipanema, Brazil, and El Condado, Puerto Rico, I examine how urban Latin American elites deployed their parenting practices as moral justification for their racial and class privilege (what I call 'sovereign parenting'). One way in which they do this is by producing particular forms of affective relationships with their nannies. The women these upper-…
National Performances
Latino Racial Formations in the United States
Latino Rehearsals
Este ensayo explora las posibilidades y los obstáculos para que surja un sentido mutuo de identidad "latina", o latinidad, entre dos de los grupos latinoamericanos de mayor presencia numérica e histórica en los Estados Unidos. Basado en investigaciones etnográficas en Chicago, una de las pocas ciudades donde los mexicanos y puertorriqueños han residido por décadas, este estudio analiza las relaciones socio‐políticas entre puertorriqueños y migran…
Latino Racial Formations in the United States
Latino Rehearsals
Latino Crossings
Delinquent Citizenship, National Performances
Transnational Latina/o Communities
Book Review| July 01 2004 Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures, Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez and Anna Sampaio. Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (4): 187–188. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501516 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedI…
Implicit Social Knowledge, Cultural Capital, and "Authenticity" among Puerto Ricans in Chicago
In their countries of origin, Latin American and Caribbean migrants to the United States have been designated by various terms suggesting their cultural impurity. In Venezuela, tabaratos were citizens who migrated to Miami in the midst of the 1970s oil boom because the change from bolivares to dollars favored them and found that everything (es)ta barato (is cheap). Pochos in Mexico, gusanos in Cuba, and, most recently, dominicayork' and brazucos …
Brazilian Immigrants in the United States
Becoming American, Becoming Black? Urban Competency, Racialized Spaces, and the Politics of Citizenship Among Brazilian and Puerto Rican Youth in Newark
This essay examines the performance of “race,” particularly the appropriation of “Blackness,” among U.S.-born Latinos and Latin American migrants in two neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey. A main argument of this essay is that “Blackness”—a performance of race somewhat detached from actual Black bodies and often associated with Puerto Ricans in Newark—has become a more valued benchmark of belongingness among Latin American migrants than “whitene…
Urban Erotics and Racial Affect in a Neoliberal “Racial Democracy”
This essay examines the power-evasive reduction of “race,” racial conflict, and racial subordination from the terrain of the social, material, and structural to the “private” realm of affect and emotions, in an effort to explain how neoliberalism operates in the everyday lives of U.S.-born Latino and Latin American migrant youth, particularly, young, working-class Puerto Rican and Brazilian women in Newark, New Jersey. A main argument of this pro…
Learning Affect, Embodying Race
This article examines everyday constructions of racial subjects, the affective worlds of those subjects, and the potential material consequences behind emotional ethos that are oftentimes in alignment with the interests of state and market imperatives. Under neoliberalism, there has been an intensification in the cultural standardization and organization of feelings and sentiments (Haskell 1985). I examine how feelings and sentiments intersect wi…
Street Therapists
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 som…
Oneka LaBennett, She's Mad Real
Sovereign Parenting' in Affluent Latin American Neighbourhoods
Drawing on ethnographic research conducted among parents living in the affluent neighbourhoods of Ipanema, Brazil, and El Condado, Puerto Rico, I examine how urban Latin American elites deployed their parenting practices as moral justification for their racial and class privilege (what I call 'sovereign parenting'). One way in which they do this is by producing particular forms of affective relationships with their nannies. The women these upper-…
Parenting Empires
Ordinary Whiteness
A conceptual roadmap for the study of whiteness in Latin America
This introductory essay outlines and contributes to fulfill the major goals of this special issue: 1) The examination of whiteness in Latin America in its articulation with broader social hierarchies, and 2) The development of a conceptual and theoretical roadmap for the study of whiteness in the region. The essay is divided into five substantive sections through which we develop our main arguments. In the first section, we offer a brief and admi…
"Borders, Terror, and Puerto Rican "Delinquent Citizenship
Borders, Terror, and Puerto Rican "Delinquent Citizenship" Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas (bio) Twenty years ago, in May 2002, a reporter from a nationally renowned US news magazine asked me about José Padilla, otherwise known as Abdullah al-Muhajir, the so-called Puerto Rican Taliban. A thirty-one-year-old US citizen, Padilla had been arrested at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago for allegedly plotting a bomb attack and having links to the Al Qaeda te…
Therapeutic cultures in elite families in Brazil
Studies of wealth and the family have provided important insights into how financial and legal institutions allow the long-term perpetuation of fortunes, such as inheritance and trust laws, as well as examining the role of family offices and philanthropy as practices that upper-class families use to preserve their wealth across generations. Such scholarship has noticed that a flip side of this is that the family, as a unit involved in the preserv…
Forging a psychological solidarity
Disrupting the social by centering the self
This article examines how life coaching, as practiced by Latinx and Latin American coaches in the United States, yielded new audiences and forms of sociability and provided conceptions of parenting as a contested practice, as defined in this special issue, for women who did not have children (either by circumstance or choice). These life coaching practices measured personal transformation in terms of how effectively individuals changed the inner …
Sociology (19 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Gender Studies (16 obras) · Politics (16 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Latin American and Latino Studies (10 obras) · Anthropology (7 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · Latin Americans (6 obras) · Law (6 obras)