Event time:
Wednesday, April 4, 2018 - 11:45am to 1:15pm
Location:
HGS 211
Event description:
Critical Encounters, Conversations in American Studies presents: Ana Ramos-Zayas “Inner World Aesthetics and Im (material) Privilege: Parenting, Race and Affect in the Affluent American Neighborhoods of Ipanema and El Condado”
Ramos-Zayas’ ethnographic work aims to understand and disentangle systems of power and privilege at a variety of scales, ranging from U.S. imperial and white supremacist politics to how individuals and communities make sense of everyday forms of power and subordination. Issues of social justice and the intersection of intimate worlds and political economic structures are fundamental concerns in her research. She is currently working on an ethnographic project tentatively titled Sovereign Parenting: Affluence, Race, and Parenting in Ipanema (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) and El Condado (San Juan, Puerto Rico), which considers the intersection of sovereignty, austerity politics, and parenting in two affluent Latin American
neighborhoods.
Ramos-Zayas is also participating in the NEH’s Newest Americans Project in Newark, NJ, where she hopes to produce a visual ethnography on the urban altars Latina/o youth build to commemorate death.
