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Author Joseph, Tiffany D., author.

Title Race on the move : Brazilian migrants and the global reconstruction of race / Tiffany D. Joseph.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity
Stanford studies in comparative race and ethnicity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : migration and racial movement across borders -- The Brazilian town that Uncle Sam built -- Deciphering U.S. racial categories -- Navigating the U.S. racial divide -- Racial classification after the return home -- Racially making America in Brazil -- Social consequences of the transnational racial optic -- Conclusion : toward global racial (re)formations.
Summary Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for its overt social exclusion of nonwhites. Yet, given the growing Latino and multiracial populations in the United States, the use of quotas to address racial inequality in Brazil, and the flows of people between each country, contemporary race relations in each place are starting to resemble each oth.
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Subject Brazilians -- Race identity -- United States.
Brazilians.
United States.
Return migrants -- Brazil -- Governador Valadares -- Attitudes.
Return migrants.
Brazil -- Governador Valadares.
Race -- Cross-cultural studies.
Race.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies.
Subject Ethnicity -- Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnicity -- Cross-cultural studies.
Ethnicity.
Brazil -- Race relations.
Brazil.
Race relations.
United States -- Race relations.
Brazil -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Social aspects.
United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Joseph, Tiffany. Race on the Move : Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race. Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, ©2015 9780804792202
ISBN 9780804794398 (electronic book)
0804794391 (electronic book)
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