Format:
Online-Ressource (224 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780521193627
Series Statement:
New Approaches to the Americas
Content:
This book examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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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.
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Cover; Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures, Tables, and Documents; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Creating Brazilians; Introduction; A Hemispheric Perspective; The Seeds of Mass Immigration; The Creation of a Multiethnic Brazil; Whitening; Mass Migration; Visions of the Other; Who Will Do the Hard Work?; Conclusion; Chapter Two From Central Europe and Asia: Immigration Schemes, 1822-1870; The New Politics of Empire; Why Germans?; Private Colonization Societies; Parceria - Sharecropping; Immigration of U.S. ConfederatesBrazil Becomes a Pariah; The Muckers; Conclusion; Appendix; Chapter Three Mass Migrations, 1880-1920; A New World Order; A Better America; Action and Reaction; Fazendo América - Making America; Arrival; New Tensions; Urbanization; Conclusion; Appendix; Chapter Four The Creation of Euro-Brazilian Identities; Rural Settlement and Political Activism: Italian Immigration; In the City: Portuguese Immigration; Unexpected Catholics: Spanish Immigration; Conclusion; Appendix; Chapter Five How Arabs Became Jews, 1880-1940; Unexpected Immigrants; Arab Jews; Farmers and PeddlersSettling in Cities; Racism and Reaction; Restriction; A Surprising Epilogue; Appendix; Chapter Six Asianizing Brazil: New Immigrants and New Identities, 1900-1955; Japanese Emigration; The Immigrants Arrive; A Different Kind of Colonization; Fighting Stereotypes; The Uses of Visibility; Quotas; Japan "Wins" World War II; Conclusion; Appendix; Epilogue: The Song Remains the Same; New Policies for a New Era; The War Ends; Postwar Asian Entry; Other New Immigrants; Emigration; Conclusion; Historiographical Essay; Index;
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781139615174
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521193627
Additional Edition:
Print version Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. Lesser, Jeffrey, 1960 - Immigration, ethnicity, and national identity in Brazil, 1808 to the present Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013 ISBN 9780521193627
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521145350
Additional Edition:
ISBN 052114535X
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
Brasilien
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Einwanderung
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Ethnische Gruppe
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Identität
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Geschichte 1808-2013
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