Syrian and Lebanese patrícios in São Paulo : from the Levant to Brazil / Oswaldo Truzzi ; translated by Ramon J. Stern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Truzzi, Oswaldo, author.

Contributor:

Stern, Ramon, translator.

Series:

Studies of world migrations

Standardized Title:

Patrícios. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Syrians--Brazil--São Paulo (State)--History.

Syrians.

Lebanese--Brazil--São Paulo (State)--History.

Lebanese.

Immigrants--Brazil--São Paulo (State)--History.

Immigrants.

History.

São Paulo (Brazil : State)--Ethnic relations.

São Paulo (Brazil : State).

São Paulo (Brazil : State)--Emigration and immigration--History.

Emigration and immigration.

Ethnic relations.

Brazil--São Paulo (State).

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 173 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

From the Levant to Brazil

Place of Publication:

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English; translated from the Portuguese.

Summary:

"This project is a translation into English of a book by Oswaldo Truzzi on Syrians and Lebanese in São Paulo from the end of the 19th century to the 1950s. Truzzi begins by describing migrants' reasons for emigrating to Brazil. He examines the economic trajectory of many of the immigrants, from peddlers to retailers, wholesale traders, and industrialists, and discusses their efforts to reinvent the unfavorable identity of "merchant" by relating it to a strong work ethic and to a mission of spreading the novelties of progress (the merchandises they commercialized) to the farthest corners of Brazil. Truzzi considers the process of differentiation within the group, both economically and in terms of religious and ethnic affinities (particularly the perception of differences between Syrians and Lebanese), and discusses the professional aspirations of the second generation. He also undertakes a comparative discussion of Syrians and Lebanese in Brazil and the United States, noting the importance of pioneering commercial activities in haberdashery, clothing, and textile sectors, a niche dominated by Jews in the United States that Syrians and Lebanese pioneered in Brazil. The book closes with a discussion of a more recent wave of Lebanese Muslims migrants to São Paulo beginning in the 1960s"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface to the Brazilian edition / Boris Fausto

Preface : the Syrian-Lebanese diaspora in a global perspective / José C. Moya

Redeeming family

From peddlers to entrepreneurs

Reinventing identities

Internal differentiation

The liberal professions : doctors, lawyers, and engineers

Patrícios in politics

Brazil and the United States : a comparative view

Conclusion : toward a history of urban immigration in São Paulo

Afterword : sociability and values of Lebanese Muslim families in São Paulo.

Notes:

Originally published by Editora Hucitec, São Paulo, as Patrícios : sírios e libaneses em São Paulo

Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-166) and index.

Arab American Book Award - Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction, Winner, 2019

Related Work:

Translation of: Truzzi, Oswaldo. Patrícios : sírios e libaneses em São Paulo .

ISBN:

9780252083631

0252083636

9780252041952

025204195X

OCLC:

1031336811