Contested belongings
Subtitle: crowding the Portuguese-speaking diaspora in Canada.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
Subjects: Portuguese -- Ethnic identity.; Portuguese -- Canada -- Ethnic identity.; Portuguese language -- Canada.
Description: I locate various Portuguese-speaking communities in Canada within Avtar Brah's notion of 'diaspora' and its attention to power, "difference," transnationality, and history. In particular, I center colonization as creating dominant narratives of what is "Canadian" and who can claim "Portugueseness" that diversify experiences of ethnicity and race within the Portuguese-speaking diaspora along discourses of racialization and white privilege. I also view how class, sexuality, gender, and region significantly inflect these experiences. I conduct 8 interviews with immigrant and second-generation youth from the diaspora in Toronto and explore how these dominant discourses of belonging influence their racial, ethnic, and national affiliations. I also examine how Canadian mainstream media diversely position three 'success' stories from the diaspora, the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira, Nelly Furtado, and Shawn Desman, within national self-representations. I focus on dominant discourses of belonging because they inform who and who does not receive community and State resources.
Notes: Adviser:  Alissa Trotz.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 43-03, page: 0738.

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