In recent decades ceremonies stood in Olympiads as both vehicles of cultural values and shows embracing the banal and the everyday. But how much do we understand them as forms of public art? This book examines the London 2012 opening and closing ceremonies and the handover event…
Embittered by her first experiences of love, a young Brazilian girl travels to Geneva in search of fame and fortune and finds her beliefs about sex and romance challenged by her relationship with a young painter.
Embittered by her first experiences of love, a young Brazilian girl travels to Geneva in search of fame and fortune and finds her beliefs about sex and romance challenged by her relationship with a young painter.
Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite's efforts to craft the nation's identity in its own image--white, Christian, and European. In Negotiating National Identi…
Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite's efforts to craft the nation's identity in its own image--white, Christian, and European. In Negotiating National Identi…
Explores the role ethnic minorities from China, Japan, North Africa, and the Middle East have played in constructing a national identity, thereby challenging dominant notions of Brazilian nationality and citizenship. "Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Braz…
During the first half of the 20th century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands; in more recent decades, over 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. The essays in this collection rethink complex related issues of ethnicity …
During the first half of the 20th century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands; in more recent decades, over 200,000 Japanese-Brazilians and their families have relocated to Japan. The essays in this collection rethink complex related issues of ethnicity …
