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

by Jeffrey Lesser

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 S o Paulo during the 1960s and 1970s, an intensely authoritarian period of military rule. The most populous city in Brazil, S o Paulo was also the world's largest "Japanese" city outside of Japan by 1960. Believing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082234081X
• ISBN13: 9780822340812
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"