Becoming Brazuca
Subtitle: Brazilian immigration to the United States
By: Clémence Jouët-Pastré and Leticia J. Braga, editors
Contributors: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
Series: David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University; David Rockefeller Center series on Latin American studies, Harvard University
Publisher: Harvard University David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780674028029
Subjects: Brazilian Americans; Social conditions; Brazilians; Emigration and immigration; Cultural assimilation; Immigrants
Other titles: Brazilian immigration to the United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: The diasporic experience / Carola Suárez-Orozco; title: Introduction: Interdisciplinary perspectives on becoming Brazuca / Leticia J. Braga and Clémence Jouët-Pastré; title: The art of seduction : images of Brazil and the United States in the twentieth century: Before we called this place home : precursors of the Brazilian community in the United States / Darién J. Davis. In the shadow of Carmen Miranda and the Carnival : Brazilian immigrant women in Los Angles / Bernadete Beserra. The formative years of the Brazilian communities of New York and San Francisco through the print media : The Brazilians/The Brasilians and Brazil today / Else R.P. Vieira; title: (In)visibility : community and belonging: Updating demographic, geographic, and occupational data on Brazilians in Massachusetts / Carlos Eduardo Siqueira snd Tiago Jansen. The commitment of return : remittances of Brazilian émigrés / Ana Cristina Braga Martes. Brazilian immigrant women : race, ethnicity, gender, and transnationalism / Judith McDonnell and Cileine de Lourenço. Emigrants from Governador Valadares : projects of return and investment / Sueli Siqueira. The concept of time and conflicting expectations of Brazilian women in clinical settings / Clémence Jouët-Pastré ... [et al.]. A uniāo ten forca? : three labor unions' outreach to Brazilian immigrant workers in Boston / Joshua Kirshner. The religious field among Brazilians in the United States / Paul Freston; title: A new generation of people and research: Between "cultural excess" and racial "invisibility" : Brazilians and the commercialization of culture in Newark / Ana ramos-Zayas. Between dream and reality : adolescent and second-generation Brazilian immigrants in Massachusetts /Teresa Sales and Márcia Loureiro. Two languages at play : language boundaries in the speech of second-generation Brazilian immigrants / Kátia Maria Santos Mota. Brazilian immigration to the United States : research and issues for the new millennium / Maxine L. Maragolis.