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  • Negotiating National Identity

    Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil

    de Jeffrey Lesser ...
    Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite’s efforts to craft the nation’s identity in its own image—white, Christian, and European. In Negotiating National Identity Jeffrey Lesser explores the crucial role ethnic minorities from China, Japan, North Africa, and the Middle East have ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present

    de Jeffrey Lesser ...
    Series series New Approaches to the Americas
    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 ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Global Latin America

    Into the Twenty-First Century

    Edición de Matthew C. Gutmann, Jeffrey Lesser ...
    Series Libro 1 - The Global Square
    Latin America is home to emerging global powers such as Brazil and Mexico and has important links to other titans including China, India, and Africa. Global Latin America examines a range of historical events and cultural forms in Latin America that continue to influence peoples’ lives far outside the region. Its innovative essays, interviews, and stories focus on insights from public ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • A Discontented Diaspora

    Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980

    de Jeffrey Lesser ...
    In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture. He does so by exploring particular experiences of young Japanese Brazilians who came of age in São Paulo during the 1960s and 1970s, an intensely authoritarian period of military rule. The most populous city in Brazil, São Paulo was also the world’s largest ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Searching for Home Abroad

    Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism

    de Shuhei Hosokawa, Koichi Mori, Karen Tei Yamashita ...
    During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. In more recent decades that flow has been reversed: more than 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnational movements and the experiences of Japanese-Brazilians, the essays in Searching for Home Abroad ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Diasporas

    Concepts, Intersections, Identities

    de Jeffrey Lesser, Homi Bhabha, Peter Mandaville, Terrance Lyons, Claire Dwyer, Manuel Vasquez, Jaine Beswick, Karim H Karim, Doctor Daniela Berghahn, Ian Cook, Tariq Modood, Toshio Watanbe, Paul Gilroy, Doctor Larissa Remennick, Gerd Baumann, Professor Martin Baumann, David Richardson, Professor Robin Cohen, Ulirke Meinhof, Sara Wills, Professor Flemming Christiansen, Junior Professor Doctor Kira Kosnick, Doctor Dibyesh Anand, Sanaz Raji, Anastasia Christou, Juan Flores, Madeleine Wong, Professor Russell King, Pnina Werbner, Susheila Nasta, Doctor James Procter, Helen Gilbert, Victoria Bernal, Avtar Brah, Khachig Tololyan, Peggy Levitt, Marie Gillespie, Philip Crang, Mark Johnson, Nicholas Van Hear, Virinder Kalra, Professor Graham Huggan, Steven Vertovec, Vijay Agnew, Simon Turner, Nadje Sadig Al-Ali ...
    Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora.Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping the field, such as migration, ethnicity, post-colonialism and cosmopolitanism. It also examines key ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America

    Images and Realities

    Edición de Ignacio Klich, Jeffrey Lesser ...
    This collection of essays addresses various aspects of Arab and Jewish immigration and acculturation in Latin America. The volume examines how the Latin American elites who were keen to change their countries' ethnic mix felt threatened by the arrival of Arabs and Jews. ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Viver e morrer em São Paulo

    imigração, saúde e infraestrutura urbana (século XIX até o presente)

    de Jeffrey Lesser ...
    Traducido por Giuliana Gramani ...
    Este livro revela como a o passado e o presente da saúde pública estão entrelaçados com questões raciais e estigmas de classe. Trata-se de um estudo meticuloso e urgente, que mostra como a desigualdade não é um acaso, mas um projeto inscrito na própria infraestrutura que nos cerca. Com uma análise que põe em diálogo constantemente o passado e o presente, Jeffrey Lesser examina como as visões de ... Leer más

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    de Ali Rattansi ...
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  • The Mexican Revolution

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  • The Power of Identity

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  • Colonialism/Postcolonialism

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    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies.This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates throughout. Topics covered include globalization, new grassroots movements (including Occupy Wall Street), the environmental crisis, and the ... Leer más

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