Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965
(Part of the Statue of Liberty -- Ellis Island Centennial Series Series)
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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.
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.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0252019970
ISBN13:9780252019975
Release Date:June 1993
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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