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Becoming Brazuca : Brazilian immigration to the United States
- Title
- Becoming Brazuca : Brazilian immigration to the United States / Clémence Jouët-Pastré and Leticia J. Braga, editors.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | E184.B68 B42 2008 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 382 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University
- Uniform Title
- David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Prologue: The Diasporic Experience / Carola Suarez-Orozco -- Introduction. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Becoming Brazuca / Leticia J. Braga and Clemence Jouet-Pastre -- The Art of Seduction: Images of Brazil and the United States in the Twentieth Century -- 1. Before We Called This Place Home: Precursors of the Brazilian Community in the United States / Darien J. Davis -- 2. In the Shadow of Carmen Miranda and the Carnival: Brazilian Immigrant Women in Los Angeles / Bernadete Beserra -- 3. The Formative Years of the Brazilian communities of New York and San Francisco through the Print Media: The Brazilians/The Brasilians and Brazil Today / Else R. P. Vierira -- (In)Visibility: Community and Belonging -- 4. Updating Demographic, Geographic, and Occupational Data on Brazilians in Massachusetts / Carlos Eduardo Siqueira and Tiago Jansen -- 5. The Commitment of Return: Remittances of Brazilian Emigres / Ana Cristina Braga Martes -- 6. Brazilian Immigrant Women: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Transnationalism / Judith McDonnell and Cileine de Lourenco -- 7. Emigrants from Governador Valadares: Projects of Return and Investment / Sueli Siqueira -- 8. The concept of Time and Conflicting Expectations of Brazilian Women in Clinical Settings / Clemence Joet-Pastre, Branca Telles Ribeiro, Marcia Guimaraes and Solange de Azambuja Lira -- 9. A Uniao Tem Forca? Three Labor Unions' Outreach to Brazilian Immigrant Workers in Boston / Joshua Kirshner -- 10. The Religious Field among Brazilians in the United States / Paul Freston -- A New Generation of People and Research -- 11. Between "Cultural Excess" and Racial "Invisibility": Brazilians and the Commercialization of Culture in Newark / Ana Ramos-Zayas -- 12. Between Dream and Reality: Adolescent and Second-Generation Brazilian Immigrants in Massachusetts / Teresa Sales and Marcia Loureiro -- 13. Two Languages at Play: Language Boundaries in the Speech of Second-Generation Brazilian Immigrants / Katia Maria Santos Mota -- 14. Brazilian Immigration to the United States: Research and Issues for the New Millennium / Maxine L. Margolis.
- ISBN
- 9780674028029
- 0674028023
- LCCN
- 40015873467
- OCLC
- ocn180757002
- 180757002
- SCSB-5432187
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries