The Psychology Of Street Racers – Drawing on nearly a decade of ethnographic research in predominantly Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas explores in Street Therapists how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as landmarks for navigating interracial relationships among Latina-born USA, Latin American immigrants, black and white ethnicities. Dealing with a rarely studied dynamic approach to affect, Ramos-Zayas offers a thorough—and sometimes paradoxical—new articulation of race, space, and neoliberalism in US urban communities.
After looking at the historical, political, and economic contexts in which the heightened connection between affect and race emerged in Newark, New Jersey, Street Therapists engages in close examination of various community sites—including high schools, workplaces, beauty salons, and funeral homes. among others, and secondary sites in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and San Juan to reveal the ways in which US-born Latin American and Latin American migrants interpret and analyze everyday racial …