Mandarin Brazil : race, representation, and memory /

In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories. Lee considers depictions of Chineseness in Brazilian popular music, literature, and visu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lee, Ana Paulina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018.
Series:Asian America
Subjects:
Chinese > Brazil > History.
Chinese in popular culture > Brazil.
National characteristics, Brazilian.
Racism > Brazil > History.
Chinois > Brésil > Histoire.
Chinois dans la culture populaire > Brésil.
Brésiliens.
Racisme > Brésil > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Chinese in popular culture
Chinese
National characteristics, Brazilian
Race relations
Racism
Brazil > Race relations > History.
Brazil
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : circum-oceanic memory : Chinese racialization in Brazilian perspective
  • Brazil's Oriental past and future
  • Emancipation to immigration
  • Performing yellowface and Chinese labor
  • The "Chinese question" in Brazil
  • Between diplomacy and fiction
  • The yellow peril in Brazilian popular music
  • Conclusion : Mandarin Brazil.

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