A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980
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| Title | : | A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980 |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.93 (336 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 082234081X |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2007-09-14 |
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In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture. He does so by exploring particular experiences of young Japanese Brazilians who came of age in São Paulo during the 1960s and 1970s, an intensely authoritarian period of military rule. The most populous city in Brazil, São Paulo was also the world’s largest “Japanese” city outside of Japan by 1960. Believing that their own regional identity should be the national one, residents of São Paulo constantly discussed the relationship between Brazilianness and Japaneseness. As second-generation Nikkei (Brazilians of Japanese descent) moved from the agricultural countryside of their immigrant parents into various urban professions, they became the “best Brazilians” in terms of their ability to modernize the country and the “worst Brazilians” because they were believed to be the
Editorial : “A Discontented Diaspora is the best work that I have read on the people of Japanese descent in Latin America, bar none. Jeffrey Lesser’s research does no less than create a whole new vocabulary for the study of evolving Nikkei personal, artistic, and political identities. This is a book that I wish I had written.”—Lane Hirabayashi, senior editor of New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan
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