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Brazilian immigration and the quest for identity / / Catarina Fritz



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Autore: Fritz Catarina Visualizza persona
Titolo: Brazilian immigration and the quest for identity / / Catarina Fritz Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: El Paso, Tex., : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (173 p.)
Disciplina: 305.8698/073
Soggetto topico: Brazilian Americans - Ethnic identity
Brazilian Americans - Economic conditions
Brazilian Americans - Education
Brazilian Americans - Massachusetts - Ethnic identity
Brazilian Americans - Massachusetts - Economic conditions
Brazilian Americans - Education - Massachusetts
Social mobility - United States
Social mobility - Massachusetts
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; CHAPTER 1: Mica, Malaria and Massachusetts; CHAPTER 2: Race Here and There; CHAPTER 3: The Dynamics of Identity; CHAPTER 4: The Dialectic of Education and Employment; CHAPTER 5: Ethnic Markers; CHAPTER 6: Dancing Around the One Drop Rule; Appendix; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This book is a detailed study of the lives of a group of young Brazilians living in the greater Boston area, the majority of whom entered the country illegally. It explores the extent to which their origins in a more racially fluid environment affects their adaptation to a society with a much more rigid form of racial categorization. In what ways does their adaptation to the racial hierarchy influence their lives in the United States and how their varying ancestry and legal status impact this process? The book provides further insight into the debate about "post-racialism" and the changing dyn
Titolo autorizzato: Brazilian immigration and the quest for identity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-59332-657-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814586203321
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Serie: New Americans (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)