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Immigration and Acculturation in Brazil and Argentina : 1890-1929 / by M. Bletz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bletz, May E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Latin America.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- America--History.
- America.
- America--Politics and government.
- Geography.
- Political science.
- World history.
- Latin American Culture.
- History of the Americas.
- American Politics.
- Political Science.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Local Subjects:
- Latin American Culture.
- History of the Americas.
- American Politics.
- Geography.
- Political Science.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An exploration of questions of nationality in Brazil and Argentina, at the time when the cities were flooded with impoverished European immigrants. The author argues that processes of representation and identity formation between national and immigrant groups have to be examined within the historical context of the host nations.
- Contents:
- Introduction: whiteness of a darker color
- In sickness and in health
- Purifying the urban landscape: processes of immigration, acculturation, and resistance in Buenos Aires
- Negotiating new identities: Argentina of the centennial
- Brazil and its discontents: Romero and Torres
- Conclusion: whiteness of a darker color.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612992940
- 9781282992948
- 1282992945
- 9780230113510
- 0230113516
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