A discontented diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the meanings of ethnic militancy, 1960-1980

Prologue: The limits of flexibility

Introduction: The Pacific Rim in the Atlantic world

Brazil's Japan: film and the space of ethnicity, 1960-1970

Beautiful bodies and (dis)appearing identities: contesting images of Japanese-Brazilian ethnicity, 1970-1980

Machine guns and honest faces: Japanese-Brazilian ethnicity and armed struggle, 1964-1980

Two deaths remembered

How Shizuo Osawa Became "Mario the Jap"

Epilogue: Diaspora and its discontents

Glossary.