Little Brazil by Maxine L Margolis

Little Brazil by Maxine L Margolis

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Provides an account of the lives of New York's Brazilians. Showing that these immigrants belie American stereotypes, this work reveals that they are largely from the middle strata of Brazilian society: many, in fact, have university educations. It aims to capture what it is like to be a new immigrant in this most cosmopolitan of world cities.

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Little Brazil by Maxine L Margolis

Provides an account of the lives of New York's Brazilians. Showing that these immigrants belie American stereotypes, this work reveals that they are largely from the middle strata of Brazilian society: many, in fact, have university educations. It aims to capture what it is like to be a new immigrant in this most cosmopolitan of world cities.
Maxine L. Margolis is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Among her works are The Moving Frontier: Social and Economic Change in a Southern Brazilian Community (Florida) and Mothers and Such: Views of American Women and Why They Changed (California).
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ISBN 13 9780691000565
ISBN 10 0691000565
Title Little Brazil
Author Maxine L Margolis
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Princeton University Press
Year published 1993-12-19
Number of pages 360
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