Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil

by Jeffrey Lesser

Book Overview

Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite's efforts to craft the nation's identity in its own image--white, Christian, and European. In Negotiating National Identity Jeffrey Lesser explores the crucial role ethnic minorities from China, Japan, North Africa, and the Middle East have played in constructing Brazil's national identity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822322927
• ISBN13: 9780822322924
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"