Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the - Presen

Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey Lesser is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Latin American History and Chair of the History Department at Emory University, Atlanta. He is the author of A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980 (2007), which received an honorable mention for the Roberto Reis Prize from the Brazilian Studies Association; Negotiating National Identity: Minorities, Immigrants, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (1999), winner of the Best Book Prize from the Brazil section of the Latin American Studies Association; and Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question (1994), which won the Best Book Prize from the New England Council on Latin American Studies. Klappentext This book examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung Immigration! Ethnicity! and National Identity in Brazil! 1808 to the Present examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans! Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Jeffrey Lesser analyzes how these newcomers and their descendants adapted to their new country and how national identity was formed as they became Brazilians. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Creating Brazilians; 2. From Central Europe and Asia: immigration schemes, 1822-70; 3. Mass migrations, 1880-1920; 4. The creation of Euro-Brazilian identities; 5. How Arabs became Jews, 1880-1940; 6. Asianizing Brazil: new immigrants and new identities, 1900-55; 7. Epilogue: the song remains the same.

Product details

• Authors: Jeff Lesser, Jeffrey Lesser, Jeffrey (Emory University Lesser, Lesser Jeffrey
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2013
• EAN: 9780521145350
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14535-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: New Approaches to the Americas; New Approaches to the Americas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, History, Brazil, HISTORY / Latin America / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General