The Cape Verdean diaspora in Portugal
Subtitle: colonial subjects in a postcolonial world
By: Luís Batalha.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham [Md.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Cape Verdeans -- Portugal -- Social conditions; Immigrants -- Portugal -- Social conditions; Alien labor -- Portugal -- History -- 20th century; Elite (Social sciences) -- Cape Verde -- History -- 20th century; Elite (Social sciences) -- Portugal -- History -- 20th century; Cape Verde -- History; Portugal -- Race relations
Description: "Luis Batalha's ethnographic study of the Cape Verdean community in Portugal focuses on two distinct groups: the middle-class white elite and the darker-skinned migrant laborers. This work strips bare the social relations - race, gender, and class - that structure lived experience in this post-colonial society. Based on the life stories of fifty Cape Verdeans living mainly in the metropolitan area of Lisbon, this study provides an analysis of these two disparate groups and illustrates what it is to be part of the present-day Cape Verdean "community" in Portugal. In addition to painting a complex and realistic portrait of this world, Batalha further sheds light on the social, national, and international dynamics of societies that struggle with a racialized social order imposed and maintained for decades and, in some cases, centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Cape Verde Islands; title: The origin and transformation of Cape Verdean Society; title: The creation of "the Cape Verdean man"; title: The Portuguese Cape Verdean "elite"; title: The Cape Verdean labor migrants; title: The Cape Verdeans : views from without.