Portuguese-Americans in the East Coast: is “crystallization” a myth?

• Author(s): Antunes Garcia Anacleto Matias, Maria Helena
• Date: 2001
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/825
• Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto
• Subject(s): Cultura portuguesa
• Document Type: Conference object
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico do Porto

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In the last but one census of the population in the US, I had to respond as a foreigner resident, and when I was asked about my race, I chose to answer the ways I had heard the activists of the civil rights movement used to do in the US, when color blindness was an important thing to fight for – to “RACE” I added “HUMAN”...