Immigration and acculturation in Brazil and Argentina
Subtitle: 1890-1929
By: May E. Bletz.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780230100190
Subjects: Acculturation -- Brazil; Acculturation -- Argentina; Brazil -- Emigration and immigraton; Argentina -- Emigraton and immigration; Brazil -- Foreign relations; Argentina -- Foreign relations
Description: Immigration and Acculturation in Brazil and Argentina is an exploration of questions of nationality in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Ŝo Paulo, at the time when these cities were flooded with impoverished European immigrants. In this study, which examines fictional, journalistic and (pseudo)scientific texts of the period, the author argues that processes of representation and identity formation between national and immigrant groups have to be examined within the historical context of the host nations.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: whiteness of a darker color; title: In sickness and in health; title: Purifying the urban landscape: processes of immigration, acculturation, and resistance in Buenos Aires; title: Negotiating new identities: Argentina of the centennial; title: Brazil and its discontents: Romero and Torres; title: Conclusion: whiteness of a darker color.