Producing in/visibility in Los Angeles -- Middle-class dreaming and the limits of "Americanness"--Making mothers count -- Organizing, motherhood, and the meanings of (domestic) work -- Dreaming American
In Domestic Economies, Susanna Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women--Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them--seek to achieve the "American Dream." By juxtaposing their understandings and experiences, sh…
Susanna Rosenbaum examines how immigrant Mexican and Central American domestic workers in Los Angeles and the predominantly white, upper-middle-class women who employ them seek to achieve the "American Dream," underscoring how the American Dream's ideology is racialized and gend…
Examines how two groups of women - Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them - seek to achieve the "American Dream." by juxtaposing their understandings and experiences, she illustrates how immigrant and native-…
Susanna Rosenbaum examines how immigrant Mexican and Central American domestic workers in Los Angeles and the predominantly white, upper-middle-class women who employ them seek to achieve the ""American Dream, "" underscoring how the American Dream's ideology is racialized and g…