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Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965
Marilyn Halter
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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.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252063268
SKU
V9780252063268
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99-1
About Marilyn Halter
Marilyn Halter is a professor emerita of history at Boston University. She is the author of Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity and coauthor of African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America.
Reviews for Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965
"An engaging study of a particularly intriguing and little-studied group with much to tell us about the construction of race and ethnicity and the dynamics of migration and community."
Sarah Deutsch, Clark University
Sarah Deutsch, Clark University