Almost Home: A Brazilian American's Reflections on Faith, Culture, and Immigration

Title Page, Copyright, Dedication

Al­ most Home Al­ most Home A Bra­ zil­ ian Amer­ i­ can’s Re­ flec­ tions on Faith, Cul­ ture, and Im­ mi­ gra­ tion H. B. Ca­ val­ canti T h e U n i ­ v e r ­ s i t y o f W i s ­ c o n ­ s i n P r e s s The Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Press 1930 Mon­ roe ­ Street, 3rd Floor Mad­ i­ son, Wis­ con­ sin 53711-2059 uw­ press.wisc.edu 3 Hen­ rietta ­ Street Lon­ don WC2E 8LU, En­ gland eu­ ros­ pan­ book­ store.com Copy­ right © 2012 The Board of Re­ gents of the Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin ­ System All ­ rights re­ served. No part of this pub­ li­ ca­ tion may be re­ pro­ duced, ­ stored in a re­ trieval­ system, or trans­ mit­ ted, in any for­ mat or by any means, dig­ i­ tal, elec­ tronic, me­ chan­ i­ cal, photo­ cop­ y­ ing, re­ cord­ ing, or oth­ er­ wise, or con­ veyed via the Inter­ net or a web­ site with­ out writ­ ten per­ mis­ sion of the Uni­ ver­ sity of Wis­ con­ sin Press, ex­ cept in the case of brief quo­ ta­ tions em­ bed­ ded in crit­ i­ cal ar­ ti­ cles and re­ views.­ Printed in the ­ United ­ States of Amer­ ica Li­ brary of Con­ gress ­ Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ca­ val­ canti, H. B., 1956– Al­ most home : a Bra­ zil­ ian Amer­ i­ can’s re­ flec­ tions on faith, cul­ ture, and im­ mi­ gra­ tion /H. B. Ca­ val­ canti. p.    cm. In­ cludes bib­ lio­ graph­ i­ cal ref­ er­ ences and index. ISBN 978-0-299-28894-5 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-299-28893-8 (e-book) 1. Ca­ val­ canti, H. B., 1956–   2. Bra­ zil­ ian ­ Americans—Biog­ ra­ phy. 3. Im­ mi­ grants—­ United ­ States—Biog­ ra­ phy.   4. So­ ci­ ol­ o­ gists—­ United ­ States— Biog­ ra­ phy.   5. United ­ States—Em­ i­ gra­ tion and im­ mi­ gra­ tion—So­ cial as­ pects. I. Title. E184.B68C38    2012 301.092—dc23 [B] 2012009960 To J . R o c k ­ w e l l S m i t h , of Lex­ ing­ ton, Ken­ tucky, who ­ brought the South to my Bra­ zil­ ian home­ town . . . ...