To be or not to be (Hispanic or Latino): Brazilian racial and ethnic identity in the United States

Ethnicities

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 427-464

  Marrow, Helen ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Harvard University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Brazil; Immigration; Panethnicity; Racialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247462542     PISSN: 14687968     EISSN: 17412706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468796803003004001     Document Type: Article

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