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<p>The United States is home to the largest Brazilian population outside of Brazil. As this diasporic group grows, it becomes important to understand how its different generations are conceptualizing race and negotiating racial identification as they navigate US society. Centering the narratives of ten children of Brazilian immigrants, the present study sought to address the following questions: (1) How do these Brazilians navigate their racial identification within a US context in which there is no consolidated category to account for mixed racial ancestry and in which&#xa0;Latinidad is racialized? If they identify as Latina/o/e, (2) how do they conceptualize and justify their belongingness to this identity, given their non-Hispanic Brazilianness? Participants’ identification decisions in the US were complicated by the inability of US dominant racial conceptualizations to accommodate their racial identifications. This can force Brazilians into a diasporic identity limbo, whereby they are too South American to be white or Black and too Lusophone to be Latina/o/e.</p>

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From the margins: Navigating race as children of Brazilian immigrants in the United States

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    2025年5月2日

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  • Luísa R. Bridi Dacroce

摘要

The United States is home to the largest Brazilian population outside of Brazil. As this diasporic group grows, it becomes important to understand how its different generations are conceptualizing race and negotiating racial identification as they navigate US society. Centering the narratives of ten children of Brazilian immigrants, the present study sought to address the following questions: (1) How do these Brazilians navigate their racial identification within a US context in which there is no consolidated category to account for mixed racial ancestry and in which Latinidad is racialized? If they identify as Latina/o/e, (2) how do they conceptualize and justify their belongingness to this identity, given their non-Hispanic Brazilianness? Participants’ identification decisions in the US were complicated by the inability of US dominant racial conceptualizations to accommodate their racial identifications. This can force Brazilians into a diasporic identity limbo, whereby they are too South American to be white or Black and too Lusophone to be Latina/o/e.