A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980Duke University Press, 14 sept. 2007 - 256 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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... (Brazil) 10 Figure 9. Brazilian stamp commemorating the visit of Crown Prince Akihito in 1967 13 Figure 10. Fairplay ... Brazil, 1964 40 Figure 16. Still from Meu Japão Brasileiro, pam Filmes, color, Brazil, 1964 41 Figure 17. Still from ...
... Brazil, 1960 and 1980, with percentage increase xxv Table 2. Population distribution, São Paulo state, 1940–80 3 Table 3. Population growth, Brazil and São Paulo (state and city), 1890– 1980 4 Table 4. Population growth, Brazilians of ...
... Brazil (in the United States) and belonging to a non-Asian ethnic group (Jewish) would be interested in Brazilian Nikkei. As I conducted the research for this book, many people I met asked, ''I know someone who is Japanese-Brazilian ...
... Brazil and Japan that was linked to the national identities of Brazil's one million citizens of Japanese descent. Connecting Brazil to Japan was not simply a marketing strategy: in popular language Nikkei (the term many Japanese ...
... Brazil and Japan included interactions at all political, economic, cultural, and social levels.∂ Ideas about Japan flowed constantly into Brazil, via images, products, and people. Brazil and Japan were deeply enmeshed in popular ...
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1 Brazils Japan Film and the Space of Ethnicity 19601970 | 20 |
2 Beautiful Bodies and DisAppearing IdentitiesContesting Images of JapaneseBrazilian Ethnicity 19701980 | 42 |
3 Machine Guns and Honest Faces JapaneseBrazilian Ethnicity and Armed Struggle 19641980 | 69 |
4 Two Deaths Remembered | 103 |
5 How Shizuo Osawa Became Mário the Jap | 112 |
Epilogue Diaspora and Its Discontents | 112 |
Notes | 112 |
Glossary | 84 |
Bibliography | 86 |
Index | 112 |
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