Race on the Move : Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, Tiffany.

Series:

Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brazil--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Brazil--Race relations.

Brazilians--Race identity--United States.

Ethnicity--Cross-cultural studies.

Race--Cross-cultural studies.

Return migrants--Brazil--Governador Valadares--Attitudes.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

United States--Race relations.

Local Subjects:

Brazil--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Brazil--Race relations.

Brazilians--Race identity--United States.

Ethnicity--Cross-cultural studies.

Race--Cross-cultural studies.

Return migrants--Brazil--Governador Valadares--Attitudes.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

United States--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for its overt social exclusion of nonwhites. Yet, given the growing Latino and multiracial populations in the United States, the use of quotas to address racial inequality in Brazil, and the flows of people between each country, contemporary race relations in each place are starting to resemble each oth

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

MAP, FIGURES , TABLES , AND PHOTOS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION. Migration and Racial Movement across Borders

Chapter. 1 THE BRAZILIAN TOWN THAT UNCLE SAM BUILT

Chapter 2. DECIPHERING U.S. RACIAL CATEGORIES

Chapter 3. NAVIGATING THE U.S. RACIAL DIVIDE

Chapter 4. RACIAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER THE RETURN HOME

Chapter 5. RACIALLY MAKING AMERICA IN BRAZIL

Chapter 6. SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE TRANSNATIONAL RACIAL OPTIC

CONCLUSION: TOWARD GLOBAL RACIAL (RE)FORMATIONS

APPENDIX

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

9780804794398

0804794391

OCLC:

1198931470