An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City

An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City is a 1998 non-fiction book by Maxine L. Margolis, published by Allyn and Bacon as a part of the "New Immigration Series".[1] A 2009 second edition was published by University Press of Florida.[2]

The title refers to the ethnic Brazilian community of New York City, although as of the book's publication, the ethnic group had not organized an actual ethnic neighborhood for themselves.[3]

Background

The author had traveled to Brazil and collected data from people there, as well as from Brazilians who lived in New York City. Other sources used by the author include government documents and anthropological documents.[4]

Contents

The 2009 edition has six chapters.[4] It includes additional research information contained from New York City and from elsewhere,[2] and section on the effects of the September 11 attacks on obtaining a visa.[4]

Reception

Niyi Afolabi of the University of Texas at Austin called the 2009 book edition "cogent".[4]

Robert Elliot Barkan of California State University San Bernardino described the original edition as "one of the more satisfying theoretically-based works."[5]

See also

References

  • Afolabi, Niyi (2011). "An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City by Maxine L. Margolis". The Latin Americanist. 55 (2): 105–106. doi:10.1111/j.1557-203X.2011.01115_9.x. - Also at Project MUSE. Review is on pages 15-16/25 of the PDF documents.
  • Barkan, Elliott Robert (1999). "An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City". Reviews in American History. 27 (2): 318–319.
  • O'Neal, Colleen G (1999). "Review: Possibilities for Migration Anthropology (An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City)". American Ethnologist. 26 (1): 221–225. JSTOR 647506.
  • Siqueira, Andréa D. (2011). "An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City". Journal of American Ethnic History. 30 (2): 117–119.

Notes

  1. ^ O'Neal, p. 221.
  2. ^ a b Siquiera, p. 117.
  3. ^ Afolabi, p. 105.
  4. ^ a b c d Afolabi, p. 106.
  5. ^ Barkan, p. 322.

Further reading

  • Frits, Catarina (2010). "AN INVISIBLE MINORITY: BRAZILIANS IN NEW YORK CITY". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 33 (1): 561–562.
  • Meihy, José Carlos Sebe Bom (2011). "An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City (review)". Luso-Brazilian review. 48 (1): 154–155.
  • Min, Pyong Gap (1998). "An Invisible Minority: Brazilians in New York City". Contemporary Sociology. 27 (4): 395–396.


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