TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lesser,Jeff
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - Immigration, ethnicity, and national identity in Brazil, 1808 to the present
AV  - F2510 .L48 2013
U1  - 305.800981 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - National characteristics, Brazilian
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Brazil
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Machine generated contents note: 1. Creating Brazilians; 2. From Central Europe and Asia: immigration schemes, 1822-1870; 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, 1900-1955; 7. Epilogue: the song remains the same; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "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"--
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