{"product_id":"9781933227276","title":"Community, Culture and the Makings of Identity: Portuguese-Americans along the Eastern Seaboard","description":"\u003cp\u003eCommunity, Culture and the Makings of Identity brings together explorations of Portuguese as well as other Lusophone and Luso-African populations that have settled in the immigrant hubs of the port cities and towns along the Northeastern seaboard of the U.S. The contributing scholars offer insight from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives into the histories, cultures, and intertwined social dynamics of these immigrant communities. The still understudied Portuguese-American story — which includes multiple waves of immigration that span two centuries, ongoing connections with a global diaspora, and complex relationships with post-colonial populations — has much to offer to our understandings of transnational migration and subsequent processes of identity and community formation among immigrants and their descents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors to this collection attend to questions about the meanings of citizenship and forms of national belonging; the role of expressive culture and media representations in process of identity formation; the factors shaping trajectories of social mobility and political representation; the complexly interconnected dynamics of work, gender and family in the immigrant context; and the formulations of racial and minority identities in this corner of the Portuguese disapora. The ethnographic richness and productive interplay of the contributions in this volume point to a whole array of new and as yet unexplored questions regarding the Portuguese-American and other interconnected communities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47056845209840,"sku":"9781933227276","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933227276_p0.jpg?v=1763640642","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933227276","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}