Becoming Brazuca

Brazilian Immigration to the United States

Edited by Clémence Jouët-Pastré

Edited by Leticia J. Braga

    • Prologue: The Diasporic Experience by Carola Suarez-Orozco
    • Biographical Information
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Becoming Brazuca by Leticia J. Braga and Clemence Jouet-Pastre

      The Art of Seduction: Images of Brazil and the United States in the Twentieth Century

    1. Before We Called This Place Home: Precursors of the Brazilian Community in the United States by Darien J. Davis
    2. In the Shadow of Carmen Miranda and the Carnival: Brazilian Immigrant Women in Los Angeles by Bernadete Beserra
    3. The Formative Years of the Brazilian communities of New York and San Francisco through the Print Media: The Brazilians/The Brasilians and Brazil Today by Else R. P. Vierira

      4. (In)Visibility: Community and Belonging

    4. Updating Demographic, Geographic, and Occupational Data on Brazilians in Massachusetts by Carlos Eduardo Siqueira and Tiago Jansen
    5. The Commitment of Return: Remittances of Brazilian Emigres by Ana Cristina Braga Martes
    6. Brazilian Immigrant Women: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Transnationalism by Judith McDonnell and Cileine de Lourenco
    7. Emigrants from Governador Valadares: Projects of Return and Investment by Sueli Siqueira
    8. The concept of Time and Conflicting Expectations of Brazilian Women in Clinical Settings by Clemence Joet-Pastre, Branca Telles Ribeiro, Marcia Guimaraes, Solange de Azambuja Lira
    9. A Uniao Tem Forca? Three Labor Unions’ Outreach to Brazilian Immigrant Workers in Boston by Joshua Kirshner
    10. The Religious Field among Brazilians in the United States by Paul Freston

      11. A New Generation of People and Research

    11. Between “Cultural Excess” and Racial “Invisibility”: Brazilians and the Commercialization of Culture in Newark by Ana Ramos-Zayas
    12. Between Dream and Reality: Adolescent and Second-Generation Brazilian Immigrants in Massachusetts by Teresa Sales and Marcia Loureiro
    13. Two Languages at Play: Language Boundaries in the Speech of Second-Generation Brazilian Immigrants by Katia Maria Santos Mota
    14. Brazilian Immigration to the United States: Research and Issues for the New Millennium by Maxine L. Margolis
    • Index
  • Cover: Becoming Brazuca

Clémence Jouët-Pastré is Senior Preceptor in Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University.

Leticia J. Braga is a graduate student at Harvard University.