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

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

Lesser, Jeffrey

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World HistorySouth American History

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ISBN10: 0822340607
ISBN13: 9780822340607
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Sep 14 2007
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture. He does so by exploring particular experiences of young Japanese Brazilians who came of age in São Paulo during the 1960s and 1970s, an intensely authoritarian period of military rule. The most populous city in Brazil, São Paulo was also the world's largest Japanese city outside of Japan by 1960. Believing that their own regional identity should be the national one, residents of São Paulo constantly discussed the relationship between Brazilianness and Japaneseness. As second-generation Nikkei (Brazilians of Japanese descent) moved from the agricultural countryside of their immigrant parents into various urban professions, they became the best Brazilians in terms of their ability to modernize the country and the worst Brazilians because they were believed to be the least likely to fulfill the cultural dream of whitening. Lesser analyzes how Nikkei both resisted and conformed to others' perceptions of their identity as they struggled to define and claim their own ethnicity within São Paulo during the military dictatorship.

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