This essay explores how Latina/o students become professionalized in the university—how their pursuit of middle-class social mobility often goes hand in hand with a shameful disavowal of their working-class, racialized identity and an adoption of what I term an “affective anemia” toward Latina/o immigrant laborers. First, I examine how higher education can promote and foster this affective anemia as the requisite for success. Second, I show how literature, particularly the Chicana nepantla poetry of Pat Mora, can allow upwardly mobile Latina/os to recover or maintain “brown affect” and embrace a cultural and class in-betweenness, as well as an affective identification with underprivileged workers. Using an affect studies lens to explore the possibilities of the nepantla third space that Chicana/os occupy between American and Mexicans cultures, I argue that this brown affect serves as a cure for the neoliberal soul-sickness of the professional workplace.

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治愈大学的情感性贫血：Pat Mora 的 Nepantla 诗歌中的拉丁中产阶级/os、棕色情感和拉丁家庭佣工的价值化

这篇文章探讨了拉丁裔/o 学生如何在大学中变得专业化——他们对中产阶级社会流动性的追求如何与他们对工人阶级、种族化身份的可耻否认以及采用我所说的“情感贫血症”针对拉丁裔/o 移民劳工。首先，我研究了高等教育如何促进和培养这种情感性贫血作为成功的必要条件。其次，我展示了文学，尤其是 Pat Mora 的 Chicana nepantla 诗歌，如何让向上流动的拉丁裔/os 恢复或保持“棕色情感”并拥抱文化和阶级中间，以及对贫困工人的情感认同. 使用情感研究镜头探索 Chicana/os 在美国和墨西哥文化之间占据的 nepantla 第三空间的可能性，