A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980Duke University Press, 14 sept. 2007 - 219 pagini 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 least likely to fulfill the cultural dream of whitening. Lesser analyzes how Nikkei both resisted and conformed to others’ perceptions of their identity as they struggled to define and claim their own ethnicity within São Paulo during the military dictatorship. Lesser draws on a wide range of sources, including films, oral histories, wanted posters, advertisements, newspapers, photographs, police reports, government records, and diplomatic correspondence. He focuses on two particular cultural arenas—erotic cinema and political militancy—which highlight the ways that Japanese Brazilians imagined themselves to be Brazilian. As he explains, young Nikkei were sure that their participation in these two realms would be recognized for its Brazilianness. They were mistaken. Whether joining banned political movements, training as guerrilla fighters, or acting in erotic films, the subjects of A Discontented Diaspora militantly asserted their Brazilianness only to find that doing so reinforced their minority status. |
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... began in 1908 , when the first of some 250,000 Japanese immigrants arrived . By 1960 Brazil had the largest Nikkei population in the world . São Paulo was the world's largest " Japanese " city outside of Japan . Over the course of the ...
... began in Brazil ) , and the state unjustly interned U.S. citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.14 By the sixties and seventies ambivalence in the United States was related to a fear of Japanese efficiency and economic growth ...
... began in 1964 there was a boom of Nikkei political leaders at the city , state , and national level.26 Politically active Nikkei also opposed the military regime , and some joined opposition groups , including armed guerrilla movements ...
... population emerged from a series of contacts between Brazil and Japan that began in 1894 ( see table 6 ) . Brazilian coffee planters , preoc- TABLE 3. Population growth , Brazil and São Paulo ( PACIFIC RIM IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD • 3.
... began to purchase large plots of land in areas of Sao Paulo state where little agricultural de- velopment had taken place . The Japanese formed cooperatives that operated networks of distribution , not just production . At the same time ...
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1 Brazils Japan Film and the Space of Ethnicity 19601970 | 25 |
2 Beautiful Bodies and DisAppearing Identities Contesting Images of JapaneseBrazilian Ethnicity 19701980 | 47 |
3 Machine Guns and Honest Faces JapaneseBrazilian Ethnicity and Armed Struggle 19641980 | 74 |
4 Two Deaths Remembered | 108 |
5 How Shizuo Osawa became Mario the Jap | 122 |
Epilogue Diaspora and Its Discontents | 148 |
Notes | 153 |
Glossary | 189 |
Bibliography | 191 |
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