Jeffrey B Lesser

Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil

Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil

Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism

Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism

A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese-Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960v1980

Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism

During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. In more recent decades that flow has been reversed: more than 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnatio...

Searching for Home Abroad: Japanese Brazilians and Transnationalism

During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands. In more recent decades that flow has been reversed: more than 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. Examining these significant but rarely studied transnatio...

Rethinking Jewish-Latin Americans (Diálogos Series)

This edited volume places Jewish-Latin Americans within the context of Latin American and ethnic studies. It departs from traditional scholarship that segregates Jews as inhabitants in Latin America republics rather than as citizens of Latin American republics. The essays draw examples primarily fro...

A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980

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 authoritari...

Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question

Jeffrey Lesser's invaluable book tells the poignant and puzzling story of how earlier this century, in spite of the power of anti-Semitic politicians and intellectuals, Jews made their exodus to Brazil, "the land of the future." What motivated the Brazilian government, he asks, to create a secret ba...

Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil

Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite’s efforts to craft the nation’s identity in its own image—white, Christian, and European. In Negotiating National Identity Jeffrey Lesser exp...

Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present (New Approaches to the Americas)

Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians, and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Jeffrey Lesser analyzes how these newcomers and their descendents adapted to their new country ...

Arab and Jewish Immigrants in Latin America: Images and Realities

This collection of essays addresses various aspects of Arab and Jewish immigration and acculturation in Latin America. The volume examines how the Latin American elites who were keen to change their countries' ethnic mix felt threatened by the arrival of Arabs and Jews.