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
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-213) and index
