Immigration, ethnicity, and national identity in Brazil, 1808 to the present [electronic resource] / Jeffrey Lesser.
2013
F2510 .L48 2013
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Title
Immigration, ethnicity, and national identity in Brazil, 1808 to the present [electronic resource] / Jeffrey Lesser.
Author
Lesser, Jeff.
ISBN
9780521193627
9780521145350
9781139611459 (electronic book)
9780521145350
9781139611459 (electronic book)
Publication Details
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
xiv, 208 p. : ill.
Call Number
F2510 .L48 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.800981
Summary
"Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Jeffrey Lesser analyzes how these newcomers and their descendants adapted to their new country and how national identity was formed as they became Brazilians along with their children and grandchildren. Lesser argues that immigration cannot be divorced from broader patterns of Brazilian race relations, as most immigrants settled in the decades surrounding the final abolition of slavery in 1888 and their experiences were deeply conditioned by ideas of race and ethnicity formed long before their arrival. This broad exploration of the relationships between immigration, ethnicity and nation allows for analysis of one of the most vexing areas of Brazilian study: identity"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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New approaches to the Americas
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Creating Brazilians; 2. From Central Europe and Asia: immigration schemes, 1822-1870; 3. Mass migrations, 1880-1920; 4. The creation of Euro-Brazilian identities; 5. How Arabs became Jews, 1880-1940; 6. Asianizing Brazil: new immigrants and new identities, 1900-1955; 7. Epilogue: the song remains the same.