Hyphenated Identities in Postwar Latin America I: Constructing ethnic belonging in Mexico, Peru, Brazil, Argentina

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

This panel is part of a series on hyphenated identities in post-Second World War Latin America, bringing together scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds and regional focuses. The series challenges standard understandings of ethnicity, state, and nation by carrying the analysis into a period where similar scholarship is all but non-existent.

These four papers examine the processes by which groups linked to Axis powers sought to (re)assert ethnic identities in the radically changed political and social landscapes of the postwar period. The disparate contexts and migrant groups analyzed offer a comparative lens that brings the importance of the nation into focus.

Sub Track

• Migration, Borders and Diasporas

Session Organizer

• H Glenn Penny

Chair

• Glen S Goodman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Individual Presentations

• German, German-Mexican, or Yuca-alemán: A case study on the effects of Mexico’s WWII policy of mobilization on families of German background in Yucatán, México - Alma J Durán-Merk, Universität Augsburg

• Villa General Belgrano - metamorfosis de un asentamiento alemán en el centro de Argentina - Hans Knoll

• Living after Wartime: Creating Japanese-Peruvians after Peru’s Second World War - Benjamin J DuMontier, University of Arizona

• Becoming White Ethnics: German-Brazilian voluntary organizations in 1950s and 60s Brazil - Glen S Goodman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Discussant

• H Glenn Penny