Street therapists
Subtitle: race, affect, and neoliberal personhood in Latino Newark
By: Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780226703619; 9780226703626
Subjects: Social conditions; Latin Americans
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The feel that sells Newark: from "aggressive" city to neoliberal-friendly emotional regime; title: Delinquent citizenship: self-help organizations, military recruitment, and the politics of worth in Puerto Rican Newark; title: Cartography of racial democracy: cultural excess, racial play, and universal sentimentality in Luso-Brazilian Newark; title: Real-life telenovelas, self-care, and stereotypes of the tropics: sexing race and emotion in the city; title: Of "black lesbians," hate crimes, and crime-talk: the sexuality of "aggression" in the city; title: Learning affect, embodying race: cosmopolitan competency and urban emotional epistemologies.