The Middle Classes in Latin America

Subjectivities, Practices, and Genealogies

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

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000605686
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Figures
• Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Notes on the Contributors
• Foreword
• 1 Introduction: “For the First Time Ever”
• Part I Liberalism, the Idea of Race, and Neoliberalism: Introduction to Part I
• Part II Labor, Consumption, and Political Disparities: Introduction to Part II
• Part III The State, Social Movements, and the Cold War: Introduction to Part III
• Part IV Social Mobility, Neoliberal Discourses, and the “Pink Tide”: Introduction to Part IV
• Epilogue:“Was It Worth Coming?”: The Global Drama of Middle-Class Lives in Latin America
• Bibliography
• Index