Between geishas and samurais: the Japanese immigration in illustrated magazines (1897-1945)

• Grant number: 14/50553-9
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants - Publications - Books published in Brazil
• Start date: September 01, 2014
• End date: December 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - History - History of Brazil
• Principal Investigator: Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro
• Grantee: Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This study has as aim to analyze the discussion around Japanese immigration through magazines published in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro and diplomatic documents between 1897 and 1945. In view of a reality of anti-japonese thought diffusion in an ongoing literacy society, corroborated by different sources, intend to confirm that iconography was a central on constructing stereotyped imagery of Japanese immigrant. The image is considered central issue for our study to understand on that symbols and images play an educative role for viewing and agreeing with convenient concepts, special/y from Brazilian diplomacy. This situation has legitimized racist’s praxis and outsiders prejudice, special/y during Estado Novo end World War II. My contribution in this research will prove that this image of racially and politically dangerous had been present since the start of de japonese immigration to Brazil. (AU)