Drawing on ethnographic research conducted among parents living in the affluent neighbourhoods of Ipanema, Brazil, and El Condado, Puerto Rico, I examine how urban Latin American elites deployed their parenting practices as moral justification for their racial and class privilege (what I call ‘sovereign parenting’). One way in which they do this is by producing particular forms of affective relationships with their nannies. The women these upper-class parents hired were largely dark-skinned immigrants: from the Dominican Republic, to work in El Condado, and from the Brazilian Northeast, to work in Ipanema. I demonstrate how elites cultivated a form of ‘informality’ and expressions of care in relation to childcare workers in ways that not only produced whiteness as a pillar of Latin American liberalism, but also associated whiteness with the world of interiority and personal growth.

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拉丁美洲富裕社区的“主权育儿”：伊帕内玛（巴西）和康达多（波多黎各）的种族和育儿政治

借鉴生活在巴西伊帕内玛和波多黎各埃尔康达多富裕社区的父母进行的民族志研究，我研究了拉丁美洲城市精英如何将他们的育儿实践作为他们种族和阶级特权的道德理由（我称之为“主权育儿”）。他们这样做的一种方法是与他们的保姆建立特定形式的情感关系。这些上流社会父母雇佣的女性大多是深色皮肤的移民：来自多米尼加共和国，在埃尔康达多工作，来自巴西东北部，在伊帕内玛工作。我展示了精英们是如何培养一种“非正式”形式和对儿童保育员的关怀表达方式，不仅使白人成为拉丁美洲自由主义的支柱，