Jeffrey Lesser

A Discontented Diaspora

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 162mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780822340607
• ISBN-10: 0822340607
• Artikelnr.: 22876081

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Lesser

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations and Tables ix
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xv
Prologue: The Limits of Flexibility xviii
Introduction: The Pacific Rim in the Atlantic World 1
1. Brazil’s Japan: Film and the Space of Ethnicity, 1960-1970 25
2. Beautiful Bodies and (Dis)Appearing Identities: Contesting Images of
Japanese-Brazilian Ethnicity, 1970-1980 47
3. Machine Guns and Honest Faces: Japanese-Brazilian Ethnicity and Armed
Struggle, 1964-1980 74
4. Two Deaths Remembered 108
5. How Shizuo Osawa Became “Mario the Jap” 122
Epilogue: Diaspora and Its Discontents 148
Notes 153
Glossary 189
Bibliography 191
Index 215