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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... Nikkei. As I conducted the research for this book, many people I met asked, ''I know someone who is Japanese-Brazilian; would you like to meet her (or him)?'' This did not come as a surprise: São Paulo is filled with Japanese ...
... Nikkei (the term many Japanese-Brazilians use for themselves) are known simply as ''japonês,'' because no linguistic distinction exists between Brazilians of Japanese descent and inhabitants of Japan itself.≤ Rachel de Queiroz's short ...
... Nikkei discontented?'' ''If so, what made this diaspora more or less discontented than any other?'' and finally ''Why did Japanese-Brazilians become a focus of cultural comment in São Paulo, and by extension Brazil?'' ''A discontented ...
... Nikkei are engaging subjects for several reasons. The long-standing and deep Brazilian adherence to the cultural ideology of modernization linked Japanese-Brazilians with Japan, one of the world's strongest and fastest- growing economic ...
... Nikkei experience in Brazil thus reveals what is often hidden in the United States, where, starting in the 1960s, cultural pressure often muted public expressions of stereotypes. In Brazil upward social mobility often brought a change ...
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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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