Pride, prejudice and politics
Performing Portuguese folklore amid Newark's urban renaissance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2632286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kimberly Dacosta Holton (Portuguese Army, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 9 (1) |
| Issue | 9 (1 |
| Pages | 81-102 |
| Publication date | 2005-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Etnografica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0873-6561 • E-ISSN: 2182-2891 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/etnografica.2949 |
| OpenAlex | W2464841163 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay examines the role of expressive culture in the renovation of stigmatized people and places. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and oral histories, this study places revivalist folklore performance center stage within Newark, New Jersey’s dramatic narrative of multicultural conciliation and post-riot transformation. Imbricated in processes of urban restoration, social healing, immigrant adaptation and political empowerment, ranchos folclóricos cannot simply be read as the nostalgic hankering for an originary homeland. Ranchos folclóricos perform double duty to both sending and receiving contexts, proactive in demonstrating to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic that Portuguese immigrants, sometimes maligned for having “ditched their country,” have harnessed the nineteenth-century traditions of rural peasants to contemporary agendas of incorporation, community building and urban renewal
Archaeology · Art · Empowerment · Ethnography · Ethnology · Folklore · Gentrification · Homeland · Immigration · Literature · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Gender Studies · History · Law · Music History and Culture · Social and Cultural Dynamics
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |