Two Portuguese Communities in New England
Author: Donald Reed Taft
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 368
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Author: Donald Reed Taft
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 368
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Published: 1967
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ISBN-13: 9780231898881
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies two Portuguese communities, one rural and one urban, in New England to learn the social issues which influence their lives.
Author: Donald Reed Taft
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
Published: 1923
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780405005411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies and compares the mores, structures, and special problems of two Portuguese communities existing in New England
Author: Donald R. Taft
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2017-11-19
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780260857941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from Two Portuguese Communities in New England Among this large number a certain few have been pecu liarly helpful. It would be a duty and a pleasure to acknow ledge this help in an extended preface. It happens how ever that the one who, outside Oi my immediate family, has contributed most prefers not to 'be thanked publicly. I shall therefore refrain from mentioning any Of these friends by name. TO them all I owe a debt which cannot be repaid. I should like also to include in my thanks the hundreds of kindly Portuguese folk whose homes I have invaded, and who have almost Without exception received me with gentle courtesy when I was engaged in an in quisitory errand which would have brought me scant wel come in many more cultured households. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Donald Read Taft
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Published: 1923
Total Pages: 357
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 357
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nicholas E. Tawa
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780810815049
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTawa examines the musical traditions brought to America by the peasants and urban workers of southern Italy, the Middle East , and eastern Europe, and by the Chinese, Japanese, and East European Jews, and describes their survival within the American context, in often hostile surroundings.
Author: Cristiana Bastos
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Published: 2024-08-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781951470272
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA century after the publication of the controversial Two Portuguese Communities in New England, Migration and Mill Work brings together analytical research essays, personal testimonies, poems, fiction, photos and drawings on Portuguese and Portuguese-Americans in their predicaments, struggles, encounters and achievements experienced under the pressures of upwards mobility, racialized tensions, politics of assimilation or multiculturalism, and labor and ethnic revival movements.
Author: Warwick Anderson
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-04-22
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1789201144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre’s Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world. Encompassing Brazil as well as Portuguese-speaking societies in Africa, Asia, and even Portugal itself, it places an interdisciplinary group of scholars in conversation to challenge the conventional understanding of twentieth-century racialization, proffering new insights into such controversial topics as human plasticity, racial amalgamation, and the tropes and proxies of whiteness.
Author: James W. Fonseca
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Published: 2018-06-04
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781722258467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the mid-1800's Portuguese Americans have been quietly at work, adjusting to a new culture and adapting a pre-existing American landscape to suit their needs. In the process, they have created a hybrid Portuguese American landscape quite different from both standard American urban landscapes and the landscapes they left behind in Portugal. The three states of southern New England -- Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island -- are now home to more than 467,000 person of Portuguese ancestry, 88,000 of whom were born in Portugal. The main concentration of Portuguese Americans, the largest cluster in the United States and the main focus of this book, is nestled in a corner of southeastern New England along the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border. The cities of Fall River and New Bedford in Massachusetts and nearby East Providence, Rhode Island are the main urban centers housing large numbers of Portuguese. These cities are connected by Interstate 195, the "Portuguese American Interstate Highway." The landscape these Portuguese immigrants created is an American landscape, but a hybridized landscape showing Portuguese cultural influences. The landscape is characterized by the distinctive three-deckers and by Portuguese iconography in the landscape especially in cultural symbols such as shrines, flags, architectural embellishments and gardens. Some of these features were not just importations into the American landscape but reactions to it.Portuguese Americans in New England still struggle to assimilate into American culture. Their lower levels of educational attainment and corresponding lower levels of income have kept the suburban American dream out of reach of some, but not all, of the immigrants. Lower levels of obtaining citizenship have kept the Portuguese a generation or more behind in assuming political power comparable to their numbers. Patriarchy, still strong in the culture, presents barriers for equal achievement by women. Prejudice against the community is still strong in some places. Even within the Portuguese community itself there are complex prejudices between mainlanders and islanders, among immigrants from various islands, and between Portuguese and the linguistically affiliated Brazilian and Cape Verdean groups. Assimilation comes slowly and when it comes the Portuguese must struggle to avoid downward assimilation into a perpetual lower class status. The Portuguese in New England rode the economic waves of southern New England's booms and busts. Just as the whaling industry that had brought the early Portuguese died out, the textile mills began to move to the Southern states or go bankrupt. For a generation the apparel industry blossomed by moving into the abandoned textile mills. When that industry declined, some plastics and electronics activity moved in but largely the heyday of manufacturing was over. Even the fishing industry that employed many Portuguese in New Bedford and in smaller towns such as Gloucester and Provincetown fell upon hard times.This book tells the story of the Portuguese Americans of southeastern New England by using concepts from geography, sociology and other social sciences.