Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making
Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). 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...
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ftopinvisindi:oai:opinvisindi.is:20.500.11815/3909 2023-07-16T03:59:07+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 and Social Sciences 2021-03 15 80-94 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3909 https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.403 en eng Nordic Journal of Migration Research; 11(1) http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118663428&partnerID=8YFLogxK 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 Scopus: 85118663428 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3909 https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.403 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Fólksflutningar (félagsfræði) Íslendingabyggðir Suður-Ameríkubúar Migration Icelanders South America Brazilian Heritage movement Nordic Whiteness Demography Geography Planning and Development Anthropology Law Sociology and Political Science /dk/atira/pure/researchoutput/researchoutputtypes/contributiontojournal/article 2021 ftopinvisindi https://doi.org/20.500.11815/390910.33134/njmr.403 2023-06-28T22:54:00Z Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). 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 Migration Icelanders South America Brazilian Heritage movement Nordic Whiteness Demography Geography Planning and Development Anthropology Law Sociology and Political Science Loftsdóttir, Kristín Eyþórsdóttir, Eyrún Willson, Margaret Becoming Nordic in Brazil: Whiteness and Icelandic heritage in Brazilian identity making |
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Publisher Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). 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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Nordic Journal of Migration Research; 11(1) http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85118663428&partnerID=8YFLogxK 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 Scopus: 85118663428 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/3909 https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.403 |
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