“The Cape Verdean Race”: Identity-building in a suburban council estate

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Autor(a) principal: Mourão,Ana Luísa
Data de Publicação: 2012
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://scielo.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1645-37942012000200003
Resumo: This article explores local articulations of identity among Cape Verdean descendants in a council estate near Lisbon. The argument addresses their notions of ‘Cape Verdeanness’ and ‘Africanness’, analysing how these are built and sustained in opposition to the “Portuguese”. It begins by pinpointing weak transnational (material and symbolic) ties with Cape Verde, moving to highlight widespread racism in Portugal’s political, media and social responses to African immigrants. Finally, it examines Cape Verdeans’ identity constructions, arguing that the categories, tacit meanings and group attributes they forge speak less of feelings of belonging to Cape Verde than of a “looping effect” whereby discursive elements of racism and segregation in Portuguese society are appropriated and reworked by the subjects themselves.
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title “The Cape Verdean Race”: Identity-building in a suburban council estate
spellingShingle “The Cape Verdean Race”: Identity-building in a suburban council estate
Mourão,Ana Luísa
Cape Verdeans
second generation
identity
racism
opposition
council estate
title_short “The Cape Verdean Race”: Identity-building in a suburban council estate
title_full “The Cape Verdean Race”: Identity-building in a suburban council estate
title_fullStr “The Cape Verdean Race”: Identity-building in a suburban council estate
title_full_unstemmed “The Cape Verdean Race”: Identity-building in a suburban council estate
title_sort “The Cape Verdean Race”: Identity-building in a suburban council estate
author Mourão,Ana Luísa
author_facet Mourão,Ana Luísa
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Cape Verdeans
second generation
identity
racism
opposition
council estate
topic Cape Verdeans
second generation
identity
racism
opposition
council estate
description This article explores local articulations of identity among Cape Verdean descendants in a council estate near Lisbon. The argument addresses their notions of ‘Cape Verdeanness’ and ‘Africanness’, analysing how these are built and sustained in opposition to the “Portuguese”. It begins by pinpointing weak transnational (material and symbolic) ties with Cape Verde, moving to highlight widespread racism in Portugal’s political, media and social responses to African immigrants. Finally, it examines Cape Verdeans’ identity constructions, arguing that the categories, tacit meanings and group attributes they forge speak less of feelings of belonging to Cape Verde than of a “looping effect” whereby discursive elements of racism and segregation in Portuguese society are appropriated and reworked by the subjects themselves.
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