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Autore |
Lesser Jeff |
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Titolo |
A discontented diaspora [[electronic resource] ] : Japanese Brazilians and the meanings of ethnic militancy, 1960-1980 / / Jeffrey Lesser |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-8223-4060-7 |
9786612923616 |
1-282-92361-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (251 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Japanese - Brazil - Ethnic identity |
National characteristics, Brazilian |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-213) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Prologue: The Limits of Flexibility -- Introduction: The Pacific Rim in the Atlantic World -- 1. Brazil's Japan: Film and the Space of Ethnicity, 1960/1970 -- 2. Beautiful Bodies and (Dis)Appearing Identities: Contesting Images of Japanese-Brazilian Ethnicity, 1970/1980 -- 3. Machine Guns and Honest Faces: Japanese-Brazilian Ethnicity and Armed Struggle, 1964/1980 -- 4. Two Deaths Remembered -- 5. How Shizuo Osawa Became "Mario the Jap" -- Epilogue: Diaspora and Its Discontents. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Analyzes the experiences of a generation of Japanese-Brazilians in Sao Paulo during the most authoritarian period of military rule in order to ask questions about ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture. |
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