A discontented diaspora : Japanese Brazilians and the meanings of ethnic militancy, 1960-1980 / / Jeffrey Lesser
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Lesser Jeff
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| Titolo: |
A discontented diaspora : Japanese Brazilians and the meanings of ethnic militancy, 1960-1980 / / Jeffrey Lesser
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| Pubblicazione: | Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.895/6081 |
| 305.8956081 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Japanese - Brazil - Ethnic identity |
| National characteristics, Brazilian | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-213) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A discontented diaspora |
| ISBN: | 0-8223-4060-7 |
| 9786612923616 | |
| 1-282-92361-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807468203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.