Contested identities: Narratives of race and ethnicity in the Cape Verdean diaspora

Identities

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 405-438

  Gibau, Gina Sánchez ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cape Verdeans; Diaspora; Identity formation; Immigrants; Racialization

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL IDENTITY; ETHNICITY; IMMIGRANT; RACE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CAPE VERDE; MACARONESIA;

EID: 28244480402     PISSN: 1070289X     EISSN: 15473384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10702890500203702     Document Type: Article

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