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FROM UNDESIRABLE TO CELEBRATED: REPRESENTATIONS OF JAPANESE IMMIGRATION IN THREE BRAZILIAN NEWSPAPERS AFTER WWII (1946-1958)

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Author(s):
Bruno Naomassa Hayashi [1]
Total Authors: 1
Affiliation:
[1] Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 1
Document type: Journal article
Source: Sociologia & Antropologia; v. 14, n. 1 2024-04-15.
Abstract

Abstract Brazilian representations of the Japanese immigration underwent rapid transformations in the first years following World War II. Drawing from three Brazilian newspapers—O Estado de S. Paulo (SP), Jornal do Brasil (RJ) and Jornal do Commercio (RJ) —, this study analyzes how images of the Japanese immigration changed from its near ban in 1946 (during the Constituent Assembly) to the celebrations of its Fiftieth Anniversary in 1958. All three newspapers supported the ban in 1946, but ended up celebrating Japanese immigration in 1958. But their paths connecting 1946 to 1958 are appreciably different. Besides empirically identifying the representations of the Japanese minority group amidst mainstream press outlets in the immediate post-war period, the study also examines some of the factors behind such changes, verifying the importance of the economy, geopolitics, local leadership and association actions, as well as the racial and national ideologies that dominated the public debate at each moment. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 21/07202-4 - The decline of the yellow peril: transformations of racial ideologies in post-war Brazil
Grantee:Bruno Naomassa Hayashi
Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
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