A discontented diaspora [electronic resource] : Japanese Brazilians and the meanings of ethnic militancy, 1960-1980 / Jeffrey Lesser.
Analyzes the experiences of a generation of Japanese-Brazilians in Sao Paulo during the most authoritarian period of military rule in order to ask questions about ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture.
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Duke University Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue: The Limits of Flexibility
- Introduction: The Pacific Rim in the Atlantic World
- 1. Brazil's Japan: Film and the Space of Ethnicity, 1960/1970
- 2. Beautiful Bodies and (Dis)Appearing Identities: Contesting Images of Japanese-Brazilian Ethnicity, 1970/1980
- 3. Machine Guns and Honest Faces: Japanese-Brazilian Ethnicity and Armed Struggle, 1964/1980
- 4. Two Deaths Remembered
- 5. How Shizuo Osawa Became "Mario the Jap"
- Epilogue: Diaspora and Its Discontents.