Race on the Move [[electronic resource] ] : Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race
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| Autore: |
Joseph Tiffany
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| Titolo: |
Race on the Move [[electronic resource] ] : Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race
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| Pubblicazione: | Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2015 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.800981 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Race on the Move |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-9439-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826493803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and