Little Brazil : : An Ethnography of Brazilian Immigrants in New York City / / Maxine L. Margolis.

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 pr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©1994
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 16 halftones 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Preface
  • LITTLE BRAZIL
  • Chapter 1. The New Voyagers
  • Chapter 2. Bye-Bye, Brazil
  • Chapter 3. First Days
  • Chapter 4. Who Are They?
  • Chapter 5. Making a Living
  • Chapter 6. From Mistress to Servant
  • Chapter 7. Shoe Shine "Boys" and Go-Go "Girls"
  • Chapter 8. Life and Leisure in the Big Apple
  • Chapter 9. Little Brazil: Is It a Community?
  • Chapter 10. Class Pictures
  • Chapter 11. An Invisible Minority
  • Chapter 12. Sojourner or Immigrant?
  • Notes
  • Glossary of Portuguese and Brazilian-American Terms
  • References
  • Index