Immigration and Acculturation in Brazil and Argentina [[electronic resource] ] : 1890-1929 / / by M. Bletz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785578903321
• Autore: Bletz M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-99294-5; 9786612992940; 0-230-11351-6
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2010.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.9/06912098109041
• Soggetti: Ethnology—Latin America; America—History; Latin America—Politics and government; Geography; Political science; World history; Latin American Culture; History of the Americas; Latin American Politics; Geography, general; Political Science; World History, Global and Transnational History; Brazil Emigration and immigration; Argentina Emigration and immigration; Brazil Foreign relations; Argentina Foreign relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: whiteness of a darker color -- In sickness and in health -- Purifying the urban landscape: processes of immigration, acculturation, and resistance in Buenos Aires -- Negotiating new ; identities: Argentina of the centennial -- Brazil and its discontents: Romero and Torres -- Conclusion: whiteness of a darker color.
• Sommario/riassunto: An exploration of questions of nationality in Brazil and Argentina, at the time when the cities were flooded with impoverished European immigrants. The author argues that processes of representation and identity formation between national and immigrant groups have to be examined within the historical context of the host nations.