Race on the Move: Brazilian Migrants and the Global Reconstruction of Race

Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the United States and back again to consider how migration between the two countries is changing Brazilians' understanding of race relations. Brazil once earned a global reputation as a racial paradise, and the United States is infamous for its overt social exclusion of nonwhites. Yet, given the growing Latino and multiracial populations in the United States, the use of quotas to address racial inequality in Brazil, and the flows of people between each country, contemporary race relations in each place are starting to resemble each other.

Tiffany Joseph interviewed residents of Governador Valadares, Brazil's largest immigrant-sending city to the U.S., to ask how their immigrant experiences have transformed local racial understandings. Joseph identifies and examines a phenomenon--the transnational racial optic--through which migrants develop and ascribe social meaning to race in one country, incorporating conceptions of race from another. Analyzing the bi-directional exchange of racial ideals through the experiences of migrants, Race on the Move offers an innovative framework for understanding how race can be remade in immigrant-sending communities.

Author: Tiffany D. Joseph
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 02/25/2015
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.81h x 6.47w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9780804794350
ISBN10: 0804794359
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Social Science | Discrimination
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | Hispanic American Studies

About the Author
Tiffany D. Joseph is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Affiliated Faculty of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Stony Brook University.