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By Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas

Drawing from nearly a decade of ethnographic learn in principally Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in Street Therapists,examines how have an effect on, emotion, and sentiment function waypoints for the navigation of interracial relationships between US-born Latinos, Latin American migrants, blacks, and white ethnics. Tackling a infrequently studied dynamic method of impact, Ramos-Zayas bargains a thorough—and occasionally paradoxical—new articulation of race, area, and neoliberalism in US city communities.

After the old, political, and fiscal contexts within which an intensified connection among impact and race has emerged in Newark, New Jersey, Street Therapists engages in specific examinations of  various group sites—including excessive faculties, places of work, attractiveness salons, and funeral houses, between others—and secondary websites in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and San Juan to discover the methods US-born Latinos and Latin American migrants interpret and learn daily racial encounters via a language of psychology and feelings. As Ramos-Zayas notes, this emotive method of race resurrects Latin American and Caribbean ideologies of “racial democracy” in an city US context—and frequently ends up in new mental stereotypes and varieties of social exclusion. widely researched and thoughtfully argued, Street Therapists theorizes the conflictive connection among race, have an effect on, and concrete neoliberalism.  

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