Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil by Jeffrey Lesser

Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil

Jeffrey Lesser

304 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative reflective medium-paced
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Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite’s efforts to craft the nation’s identity in its own image—white, Christian, and European....

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