The Cape Verdean Diaspora in Portugal: Colonial Subjects in a Postcolonial World

by Luís Batalha

Author Lu s Batalha's ethnographic study of the Cape Verdean community in Portugal focuses on two distinct groups: the middle-class white elite and the darker-skinned, migrant laborers. This challenging and unique work strips bare the social relations--race, gender, and class--that structure lived experience in this post-colonial society. Based on the life stories of fifty Cape Verdeans living mainly in the metropolitan are of Lisbon, this study provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739107976
• ISBN13: 9780739107973
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"