Between Race and Ethnicity - Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965 (Paperback)

Arriving in New England first as crew members of whaling vessels, Afro-Portuguese immigrants from Cape Verde later came as permanent settlers and took work in the cranberry industry, on the docks, and as domestic workers. Marilyn Halter combines oral history with analyses of ships' records to chart the history and adaptation patterns of the Cape Verdean Americans. Though identifying themselves in ethnic terms, Cape Verdeans found that their African-European ancestry led their new society to view them as a racial group. Halter emphasizes racial and ethnic identity formation to show how Cape Verdeans set themselves apart from the African Americans while attempting to shrug off white society's exclusionary tactics. She also contrasts rural life on the bogs of Cape Cod with New Bedford's urban community to reveal the ways immigrants established their own social and religious groups as they strove to maintain their Crioulo customs.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Statue of Liberty Ellis Island
Release date:	May 1993
Authors:	Marilyn Halter
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-06326-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > General
LSN:	0-252-06326-0
Barcode:	9780252063268

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