Walking west on 46th Street in Manhattan, just three blocks from
Rockefeller Center, one passes Brazilian restaurants, the office of
New York's Brazilian newspaper, a Brazilian travel agency, a
business that sends remittances and wires flowers to Brazil, and a
store that sells Brazilian food products, magazines, newspapers,
videos, and tapes. These businesses are the tip of an ethnic
iceberg, an unseen minority estimated to number some 80,000 to
100,000 Brazilians in the New York metropolitan area alone. Despite
their numbers, the lives of these people remain largely hidden to
scholars and the public alike. Now Maxine L. Margolis remedies this
neglect with a fascinating and accessible account of the lives of
New York's Brazilians.
Showing that these immigrants belie American stereotypes,
Margolis reveals that they are largely from the middle strata of
Brazilian society: many, in fact, have university educations. Not
driven by dire poverty or political repression, they are fleeing
from chaotic economic conditions that prevent them from maintaining
amiddle-class standard of living in Brazil. But despite their class
origin and education, with little English and no work papers, many
are forced to take menial jobs after their arrival in the United
States. "Little Brazil" is not an insentient statistical portrait
of this population writ large, but a nuanced account that captures
what it is like to be a new immigrant in this most cosmopolitan of
world cities.
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