Community, Culture and the Makings of Identity: Portuguese-Americans along the Eastern Seaboard Book

INTRODUCTION Lusophone Studies in the U.S. - Andrea Klimt & Kimberly DaCosta Holton CITIZENSHIP, BELONGING AND COMMUNITY Citizenship, Naturalization and Electoral Success: Putting the Portuguese-American Experience in Comparative Context - Irene Bloemraad Multiple Layers of Time and Space: The Construction of Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism among Portuguese Immigrants - Bela Feldman Bianco Divergent Trajectories: Identity and Community among Portuguese in Germany and New England - Andrea Klimt EXPRESSIVE CULTURE, MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS AND IDENTITY Traveling Rituals: Azorean Holy Ghost Festivals in Southeastern New England - Joao Leal Dancing Along the In-Between: Folklore Performance and Transmigration in Portuguese Newark - Kimberly DaCosta Holton Images of the Virgin in Portuguese Art at the Newark Museum - Lori Barcliff Baptista Viva Rhode Island, Viva Portugal! Performance and Tourism in Portuguese-American Band - Katherine Brucher Salazar in New Bedford: History of the Diario de Noticias, New Bedford's Portuguese Newspaper - Rui Correia Media-Made Events: Revisiting the Case of Big Dan's - Onesimo Teotonio Almeida EDUCATION, SOCIAL MOBILITY, AND POLITICAL CULTURE Context or Culture: Portuguese-Americans and Social Mobility - M. Gloria de Sa and David Borges The Political Culture of Portuguese-Americans in Southeastern Massachusetts - Clyde W. Barrow The Role of the School in the Maintenance and Change of Ethnic Group Affiliation - Adeline Becker WORK, GENDER, AND FAMILY Portuguese Labor Activism in Southeastern Massachusetts - Penn Reeve Kin Networks and Family Strategies: Working-Class Portuguese Families in New England - Louise Lamphere, Filomena Silva and John Sousa Unionization in an Electronics Factory: The Interplay of Gender, Ethnicity, and Class - Ann Bookman RACE, POST-COLONIALISM, AND DIASPORIC CONTEXTS The Shadow Minority: An Ethnohistory of Portuguese and Lusophone Racial and Ethnic Identity in New England - Miguel Moniz Stereotypes of the Tropics in 'Portuguese Newark': Brazilian Women, Urban Erotics, and the Phantom of Blackness - Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas Contested Identities: Narratives of Race and Ethnicity in the Cape Verdean Diaspora - Gina Sanchez Gibau Angola Dreaming: Memories of Africa among Portuguese Retornados in Newark, NJ - Kimberly DaCosta Holton Diasporic Generations: Distinctions of Race, Nationality, and Identity in the Cape Verdean Community, Past and Present - Marilyn Halter REFLECTIONS Current Trends and Future Directions in Portuguese-American Studies - Caroline Brettell *WORKS CITED AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES