03946nam 2200649 450 991081673030332120230126220335.01-5036-0388-110.1515/9781503603882(CKB)3790000000536087(MiAaPQ)EBC5155792(DE-B1597)563809(DE-B1597)9781503603882(Au-PeEL)EBL5155792(CaPaEBR)ebr11473165(OCoLC)1002303708(OCoLC)1198930213(EXLCZ)99379000000053608720171218h20182018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierRace and upward mobility seeking, gatekeeping, and other class strategies in postwar America /Elda María RománStanford, California :Stanford University Press,2018.©20181 online resource (313 pages)Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity Series1-5036-0284-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --INTRODUCTION --Chapter 1. MORTGAGED STATUS --Chapter 2. CLASS SUICIDE --Chapter 3. CULTURAL BETRAYAL --Chapter 4. STATUS PANIC --Chapter 5. RACIAL INVESTMENTS --Chapter 6. SWITCHED ALLEGIANCES --EPILOGUE --NOTES --INDEXOver the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Mexican American and African American cultural productions have seen a proliferation of upward mobility narratives: plotlines that describe desires for financial solvency, middle-class status, and social incorporation. Yet the terms "middle class" and "upward mobility"—often associated with assimilation, selling out, or political conservatism—can hold negative connotations in literary and cultural studies. Surveying literature, film, and television from the 1940's to the 2000's, Elda María Román brings forth these narratives, untangling how they present the intertwined effects of capitalism and white supremacy. Race and Upward Mobility examines how class and ethnicity serve as forms of currency in American literature, affording people of color material and symbolic wages as they traverse class divisions. Identifying four recurring character types—status seekers, conflicted artists, mediators, and gatekeepers—that appear across genres, Román traces how each models a distinct strategy for negotiating race and class. Her comparative analysis sheds light on the overlaps and misalignments, the shared narrative strategies, and the historical trajectories of Mexican American and African American texts, bringing both groups' works into sharper relief. Her study advances both a new approach to ethnic literary studies and a more nuanced understanding of the class-based complexities of racial identity.Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.American literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticismAfrican Americans in literatureMexican Americans in literatureSocial classes in literatureSocial mobility in literatureEthnicity in literatureRace in literatureAmerican literatureMinority authorsHistory and criticism.African Americans in literature.Mexican Americans in literature.Social classes in literature.Social mobility in literature.Ethnicity in literature.Race in literature.810.9920693Román Elda María1983-1658470MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816730303321Race and upward mobility4012492UNINA