Little Brazil An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City

Name: Little Brazil An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City
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ISBN: 9780691000565

ISBN-10: 0691000565

ISBN-13: 9780691000565

Edition: 1994

Authors: Maxine L. Margolis

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Walking west on 46th Street in Manhattan, just three blocks from Rockefeller Center, one passes Brazilian restaurants, the office of New York's Brazilian newspaper, a Brazilian travel agency, a business that sends remittances and wires flowers to Brazil, and a store that sells Brazilian food products, magazines, newspapers, videos, and tapes. These businesses are the tip of an ethnic iceberg, an unseen minority estimated to number some 80,000 to 100,000 Brazilians in the New York metropolitan area alone. Despite their numbers, the lives of these people remain largely hidden to scholars and the public alike. Now Maxine L. Margolis remedies this neglect with a fascinating and accessible…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 12/19/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.13" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Preface



The New Voyagers



Bye-Bye, Brazil



First Days



Who Are They?



Making a Living



From Mistress to Servant



Shoe Shine "Boys" and Go-Go "Girls"



Life and Leisure in the Big Apple



Little Brazil: Is It a Community?



Class Pictures



An Invisible Minority



Sojourner or Immigrant?


Notes


Glossary of Portuguese and Brazilian-American Terms


References


Index