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Author: M. Rachel Cunha
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Author: M. Rachel Cunha
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Author: Leo Pap
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Author: Donald Reed Taft
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Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Author: Rita Moniz
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Category : Portuguese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
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Author: Rita C. Michaelson
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Category : Cabo Verdean Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Author: Frances Sylvia Gracia
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 14
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Author: James W. Fonseca
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ISBN: 9781722258467
Category : Portuguese Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Since the mid-1800's Portuguese Americans have been quietly at work, adjusting to a new culture and adapting a pre-existing American landscape to suit their needs. In the process, they have created a hybrid Portuguese American landscape quite different from both standard American urban landscapes and the landscapes they left behind in Portugal. The three states of southern New England -- Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island -- are now home to more than 467,000 person of Portuguese ancestry, 88,000 of whom were born in Portugal. The main concentration of Portuguese Americans, the largest cluster in the United States and the main focus of this book, is nestled in a corner of southeastern New England along the Massachusetts-Rhode Island border. The cities of Fall River and New Bedford in Massachusetts and nearby East Providence, Rhode Island are the main urban centers housing large numbers of Portuguese. These cities are connected by Interstate 195, the "Portuguese American Interstate Highway." The landscape these Portuguese immigrants created is an American landscape, but a hybridized landscape showing Portuguese cultural influences. The landscape is characterized by the distinctive three-deckers and by Portuguese iconography in the landscape especially in cultural symbols such as shrines, flags, architectural embellishments and gardens. Some of these features were not just importations into the American landscape but reactions to it.Portuguese Americans in New England still struggle to assimilate into American culture. Their lower levels of educational attainment and corresponding lower levels of income have kept the suburban American dream out of reach of some, but not all, of the immigrants. Lower levels of obtaining citizenship have kept the Portuguese a generation or more behind in assuming political power comparable to their numbers. Patriarchy, still strong in the culture, presents barriers for equal achievement by women. Prejudice against the community is still strong in some places. Even within the Portuguese community itself there are complex prejudices between mainlanders and islanders, among immigrants from various islands, and between Portuguese and the linguistically affiliated Brazilian and Cape Verdean groups. Assimilation comes slowly and when it comes the Portuguese must struggle to avoid downward assimilation into a perpetual lower class status. The Portuguese in New England rode the economic waves of southern New England's booms and busts. Just as the whaling industry that had brought the early Portuguese died out, the textile mills began to move to the Southern states or go bankrupt. For a generation the apparel industry blossomed by moving into the abandoned textile mills. When that industry declined, some plastics and electronics activity moved in but largely the heyday of manufacturing was over. Even the fishing industry that employed many Portuguese in New Bedford and in smaller towns such as Gloucester and Provincetown fell upon hard times.This book tells the story of the Portuguese Americans of southeastern New England by using concepts from geography, sociology and other social sciences.
Author: Donald Reed Taft
Publisher: Ayer Publishing
ISBN: 9780405005411
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Studies and compares the mores, structures, and special problems of two Portuguese communities existing in New England
Author: Christian John Bannick
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Category : Portuguese
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Author: Sandra Wolforth
Publisher: San Francisco : R & E Research Associates
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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