A Discontented Diaspora : Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-1980 /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lesser, Jeff
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Brazilian.
Japanese > Ethnic identity.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Bresiliens.
Japanese > Brazil > Ethnic identity.
Brazil.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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