Lesser, Jeff.

A discontented diaspora Japanese Brazilians and the meanings of ethnic militancy, 1960-1980 / [electronic resource] : Jeffrey Lesser. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2007. - xxx, 219 p. : ill., map. - e-Duke books scholarly collection. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-213) and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.




Japanese--Ethnic identity.--Brazil
National characteristics, Brazilian.


Electronic books.

F2659.J3 / L47 2007