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A discontented diaspora : Japanese Brazilians and the meanings of ethnic militancy, 1960-1980
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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...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Jeffrey Lesser
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (251 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0822340607, 9786612923616, 1282923617, 0822390485, 082234081X
- OCLC
- ocn271166216, on1139388619, on1224278109
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-213) and index.
- English
- 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