A Discontented Diaspora
Title | A Discontented Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Lesser |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2007-09-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822340812 |
DIVAnalyzes 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. /div
A Discontented Diaspora
Title | A Discontented Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Lesser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9786612923616 |
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.
Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present
Title | Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Lesser |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2013-01-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521193621 |
This book examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century.
Kibbutzniks in the Diaspora
Title | Kibbutzniks in the Diaspora PDF eBook |
Author | Naama Sabar |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0791493105 |
Under what circumstances would kibbutz-born young people leave a society which symbolizes, more than anything else, the Zionist dream? Naama Sabar explores this question by examining the lives of a group of Israeli emigrants living in Los Angeles in the 1980s and early 1990s. Through extensive interviews in which these "kibbutzniks" share their life stories, she uncovers what pushed them to leave the kibbutz and what pulls them to remain in L.A. The underlying leitmotif is the search for identity under changing conditions.
Port of Last Resort
Title | Port of Last Resort PDF eBook |
Author | Marcia Reynders Ristaino |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780804750233 |
This book examines two large and generally overlooked diaspora communities, one Jewish, the other Slavic, who found refuge in Shanghai during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.
Terms of Inclusion
Title | Terms of Inclusion PDF eBook |
Author | Paulina L. Alberto |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807834378 |
In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of in
Negotiating National Identity
Title | Negotiating National Identity PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Lesser |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780822322924 |
A comparative study of immigration and ethnicity with an emphasis on the Chinese, Japanese, and Arabs who have contributed to Brazil's diverse mix.