Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Lesser, Jeff, author.

Title Immigration, ethnicity, and national identity in Brazil, 1808 to the present / Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013
©2013

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations
Series New approaches to the Americas
New approaches to the Americas.
Contents Creating Brazilians -- From Central Europe and Asia : immigration schemes, 1822-1870 -- Mass migrations, 1880-1920 -- The creation of Euro-Brazilian identities -- How Arabs became Jews, 1880-1940 --Asianizing Brazil : new immigrants and new identities, 1900-1955 -- Epilogue : the song remains the same
Summary "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 along with their children and grandchildren. Lesser argues that immigration cannot be divorced from broader patterns of Brazilian race relations, as most immigrants settled in the decades surrounding the final abolition of slavery in 1888 and their experiences were deeply conditioned by ideas of race and ethnicity formed long before their arrival. This broad exploration of the relationships between immigration, ethnicity and nation allows for analysis of one of the most vexing areas of Brazilian study: identity"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject National characteristics, Brazilian -- History -- 19th century
National characteristics, Brazilian -- History -- 20th century
Immigrants -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century
Immigrants -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
Ethnic relations
Immigrants
National characteristics, Brazilian
SUBJECT Brazil -- Ethnic relations -- History
Subject Brazil
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012016727
ISBN 9781139611459
1139611453
9781139615174
1139615173
9781139624473
1139624474
9781139026796
1139026798
1107232775
9781107232778
1139609599
9781139609593
1107253276
9781107253278
1139620754
9781139620758