Prologue: The diasporic experience / Carola Suárez-Orozco -- Introduction: Interdisciplinary perspectives on becoming Brazuca / Leticia J. Braga and Clémence Jouët-Pastré -- The art of seduction : images of Brazil and the United States in the twentieth century: Before we called this place home : precursors of the Brazilian community in the United States / Darién J. Davis. In the shadow of Carmen Miranda and the Carnival : Brazilian immigrant women in Los Angles / Bernadete Beserra. The formative years of the Brazilian communities of New York and San Francisco through the print media : The Brazilians/The Brasilians and Brazil today / Else R.P. Vieira -- (In)visibility : community and belonging: Updating demographic, geographic, and occupational data on Brazilians in Massachusetts / Carlos Eduardo Siqueira snd Tiago Jansen. The commitment of return : remittances of Brazilian émigrés / Ana Cristina Braga Martes. Brazilian immigrant women : race, ethnicity, gender, and transnationalism / Judith McDonnell and Cileine de Lourenço. Emigrants from Governador Valadares : projects of return and investment / Sueli Siqueira. The concept of time and conflicting expectations of Brazilian women in clinical settings / Clémence Jouët-Pastré ... [et al.]. A uniāo ten forca? : three labor unions' outreach to Brazilian immigrant workers in Boston / Joshua Kirshner. The religious field among Brazilians in the United States / Paul Freston -- A new generation of people and research: Between "cultural excess" and racial "invisibility" : Brazilians and the commercialization of culture in Newark / Ana ramos-Zayas. Between dream and reality : adolescent and second-generation Brazilian immigrants in Massachusetts /Teresa Sales and Márcia Loureiro. Two languages at play : language boundaries in the speech of second-generation Brazilian immigrants / Kátia Maria Santos Mota. Brazilian immigration to the United States : research and issues for the new millennium / Maxine L. Maragolis.