Negotiating Belonging: Race, Class, and Religion in the Brazilian Quest for “Becoming American”

IF 2.4 1区哲学 0 RELIGION Sociology of Religion Pub Date : 2022-02-22 DOI:10.1093/socrel/srac002

Rodrigo Serrão

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Abstract

This study examines how members of a majority second-generation Brazilian church in South Florida perceive their English-speaking, “American” congregation compared to the Portuguese-speaking Brazilian congregation from which they originated. Data for this research are drawn from in-depth, open-ended interviews with 32 members from different ethnoracial backgrounds, participant observation, and content analysis of the congregations’ social media. Findings show that the discourse of church differences portrays the two congregations in racialized and classist ways. Combining boundary-making and identity work theories, I argue that the perceptions espoused by members of the American congregation come from a place of pressure to assimilate to U.S. White middle-class culture, consequently reinforcing and legitimizing stereotypes in an effort to distance themselves from Brazilian immigrants.

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谈判归属:巴西人追求“成为美国人”的种族、阶级和宗教

这项研究考察了南佛罗里达州一个占多数的第二代巴西教会的成员如何看待他们讲英语的“美国”会众，与他们起源的讲葡萄牙语的巴西会众相比。这项研究的数据来自对来自不同种族背景的32名成员的深入、开放式采访、参与者观察和会众社交媒体的内容分析。研究结果表明，关于教会差异的论述以种族化和古典主义的方式描绘了两个会众。结合边界划定和身份工作理论，我认为美国会众所支持的观念来自于一个同化美国白人中产阶级文化的压力之地，从而强化刻板印象并使其合法化，以努力与巴西移民保持距离。

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