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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787424403321

Autore

Joseph Tiffany

Titolo

Race on the Move [[electronic resource] ] : Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2015

ISBN

0-8047-9439-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and

Disciplina

305.800981

Soggetti

Brazil -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects

Brazil -- Race relations

Brazilians -- Race identity -- United States

Ethnicity -- Cross-cultural studies

Race -- Cross-cultural studies

Return migrants -- Brazil -- Governador Valadares -- Attitudes

United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects

United States -- Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- MAP, FIGURES , TABLES , AND PHOTOS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION. Migration and Racial Movement across Borders -- Chapter. 1 THE BRAZILIAN TOWN THAT UNCLE SAM BUILT -- Chapter 2. DECIPHERING U.S. RACIAL CATEGORIES -- Chapter 3. NAVIGATING THE U.S. RACIAL DIVIDE -- Chapter 4. RACIAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER THE RETURN HOME -- Chapter 5. RACIALLY MAKING AMERICA IN BRAZIL -- Chapter 6. SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE TRANSNATIONAL RACIAL OPTIC -- CONCLUSION: TOWARD GLOBAL RACIAL (RE)FORMATIONS -- APPENDIX -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for its overt social exclusion of nonwhites. Yet, given the growing Latino and multiracial populations in the United States, the



use of quotas to address racial inequality in Brazil, and the flows of people between each country, contemporary race relations in each place are starting to resemble each oth