Reflexões sobre (codi)nomes e etnicidade em São Paulo

Authors

  • Jeffrey Lesser Universidade Emory; Departamento de História

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012008000100010

Keywords:

Diaspora, ethnicity, Nikkei, nation, stereotypes, names, codenames, falsenames

Abstract

The notion that 1,2 million Brazilians are"Japanese" has important implications for our understanding of nation, ethnicity and Diaspora. The majority of Nikkei see Brazil as their nation, but many non-Nikkei Brazilian presume that Japan is the Nikkei homeland. This article suggests that Nikkei militants during the period of the dictatorship (1964-1984) resented the diasporic representations constructed by majority society and rejected the idea that they were simply"Japanese." These same people, however, see themselves as different from normative Brazilians, and their stereotypes of "Brazil" and"Brazilians" as others was as prevalent as the stereotypes of non-Nikkei about"Japan" and"Japanese".

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Published

2008-01-01

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 1 (2008)

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How to Cite

Lesser, J. (2008). Reflexões sobre (codi)nomes e etnicidade em São Paulo . Revista De Antropologia, 51(1), 267-281. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012008000100010