Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making
In this article, we focus on whiteness as an historically shifting phenomenon by analysing Brazilian recent emphasis on Icelandic ancestry, demonstrating the intersection of whiteness, class and ethnicity. A small group of Icelanders were among the millions migrating to Brazil around the latter half...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/2611 2023-05-15T16:47:22+02:00 Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making Loftsdóttir, Kristín Eyþórsdóttir, Eyrún Willson, Margaret Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics School of Humanities 2021-03 80-94 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2611 https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.403 en eng Nordic Journal of Migration Research; 11(1) Loftsdóttir , K , Eyþórsdóttir , E & Willson , M 2021 , ' Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making ' , Nordic Journal of Migration Research , vol. 11 , no. 1 , pp. 80-94 . https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.403 1799-649X PURE: 28544797 PURE UUID: ee8f5ebd-2d11-4a45-a63f-7b03b945874c unpaywall: 10.33134/njmr.403 WOS: 000631810800007 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2611 https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.403 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Fólksflutningar (félagsfræði) Íslendingabyggðir Suður-Ameríkubúar Brazilian Heritage movement Migration Nordic Whiteness Icelanders South America /dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/contributiontojournal/article 2021 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/2611 https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.403 2022-11-18T06:52:11Z In this article, we focus on whiteness as an historically shifting phenomenon by analysing Brazilian recent emphasis on Icelandic ancestry, demonstrating the intersection of whiteness, class and ethnicity. A small group of Icelanders were among the millions migrating to Brazil around the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Icelandic migrants did not emphasise their Icelandic identity but affiliated themselves with Germans and other favoured immigrant groups. More than 130 years later, a group of Brazilians of Icelandic descent founded the Iceland Brazil Association to celebrate the Icelandic part of their ancestry. Since then, both their membership and interest in Iceland have grown. We ask how this emphasis on Icelandic ancestry intersects with an increased reification of Icelandic identity as ‘white’ identity. The discussion shows that the emphasis on Icelandic ethnic markers is new in Brazil and needs to be understood within the theorisation of Brazilian national and racialised identity. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Opin vísindi (Iceland) Nordic Journal of Migration Research 11 1 80 94 |
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Fólksflutningar (félagsfræði) Íslendingabyggðir Suður-Ameríkubúar Brazilian Heritage movement Migration Nordic Whiteness Icelanders South America Loftsdóttir, Kristín Eyþórsdóttir, Eyrún Willson, Margaret Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making |
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In this article, we focus on whiteness as an historically shifting phenomenon by analysing Brazilian recent emphasis on Icelandic ancestry, demonstrating the intersection of whiteness, class and ethnicity. A small group of Icelanders were among the millions migrating to Brazil around the latter half of the nineteenth century. The Icelandic migrants did not emphasise their Icelandic identity but affiliated themselves with Germans and other favoured immigrant groups. More than 130 years later, a group of Brazilians of Icelandic descent founded the Iceland Brazil Association to celebrate the Icelandic part of their ancestry. Since then, both their membership and interest in Iceland have grown. We ask how this emphasis on Icelandic ancestry intersects with an increased reification of Icelandic identity as ‘white’ identity. The discussion shows that the emphasis on Icelandic ethnic markers is new in Brazil and needs to be understood within the theorisation of Brazilian national and racialised identity. Peer reviewed |
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Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making |
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Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making |
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Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making |
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Nordic Journal of Migration Research; 11(1) Loftsdóttir , K , Eyþórsdóttir , E & Willson , M 2021 , ' Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making ' , Nordic Journal of Migration Research , vol. 11 , no. 1 , pp. 80-94 . https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.403 1799-649X PURE: 28544797 PURE UUID: ee8f5ebd-2d11-4a45-a63f-7b03b945874c unpaywall: 10.33134/njmr.403 WOS: 000631810800007 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2611 https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.403 |
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