Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil

by Jeffrey Lesser

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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 played in constructing Brazil's national identity,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822322927

ISBN13:9780822322924

Release Date:June 1999

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:304 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Anthropology Brazil Cultural Discrimination & Racism History Latin America Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences South America

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