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| Author(s): |
Bruno Naomassa Hayashi
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2023-07-07 |
| Examining board members: |
Antonio Sergio Alfredo Guimaraes;
Walter Jerome Jose Davila;
Matheus Gato de Jesus;
Monica Setuyo Okamoto
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| Advisor: | Antonio Sergio Alfredo Guimaraes; Sedi Hirano |
| Abstract | |
This doctoral dissertation analyzes the representations about Japanese immigration in Brazil, with a special focus on the transformations of these representations in the 1940s and 1950s, based on legislative, judicial, and journalistic sources, as well as works of Brazilian social thought. In this period, Japanese immigration changed from the condition of an undesirable immigration, demonstrated by the attempt to ban this immigration in the Constituent Assembly of 1946, to the condition of a celebrated immigration, demonstrated by the celebrations in the National Congress of the fiftieth anniversary of Japanese immigration to Brazil in 1958. After examining the foundations of these variant representations about Japanese and their descendants, the dissertation investigates the fate of Japanese immigration in post-war Brazil. At the end of the process of change in the first years after World War II, it will be examined what was the place of Japanese and their descendants in Brazilian society, in its social and racial formation and in its national ideologies. In the midst of profound changes in the representations of this population – which can be summarized in the passage from the ideology of the \"yellow peril\" to the myth of the \"model minority\" – an important persistence is noted: the condition of this population in Brazil as a kind of \"perpetual foreigners\". (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 17/25367-5 - The yellow and the black: ethnic-racial and class boundaries in Brazilian social inequality |
| Grantee: | Bruno Naomassa Hayashi |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |