Research Guides: Our Town/Nha Vida: Suggested Resources

Suggested Additional Reading

The following are some suggested resources for those interested in learning more about the Cape Verdean community on the south coast of Massachusetts. This is not an exhaustive list, however, we welcome suggestions for additional resources to be listed. Please contact us.

Where possible, the resources have been linked via the Claire T. Carney Library or their original digital format.

"Free men name themselves": Cape Verdeans in Massachusetts negotiate race, 1900-1980
Pilgrim, Aminah Nailah. "Free men name themselves": Cape Verdeans in Massachusetts negotiate race, 1900-1980." PhD diss., Rutgers University-Graduate School-New Brunswick, 2008.
"We eat cachupa, not clam chowder:” Mapping second generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the Greater Boston area."
Saucier, Paul Khalil. "We eat cachupa, not clam chowder:” Mapping second generation Cape Verdean youth identity in the Greater Boston area." PhD diss., Northeastern University, 2008.
D'NOS MANERA - Gender, Collective Identity and Leadership in the Cape Verdean Community in the United States
Lima-Neves, Terza Alice Silva. "D'NOS MANERA-Gender, Collective Identity and Leadership in the Cape Verdean Community in the United States." Journal of Cape Verdean Studies 1, no. 1 (2015): 6.
In Search of Social Identity: Strategies of Ethnic Identity Management Amongst Capeverdeans in Southeastern Massachusetts
Greenfield, Sidney M. “In Search of Social Identity: Strategies of Ethnic Identity Management Amongst Capeverdeans in Southeastern Massachusetts.” Luso-Brazilian review 13, no. 1 (1976): 3–18.
Secondary Diaspora: Cape Verdean Immigration to the Southeastern United States
Lopes, Jessica, and Lundy, Brandon. "Secondary Diaspora: Cape Verdean Immigration to the Southeastern United States," Southern Anthropologist: Vol. 36: No. 2, Article 4 (2014)
Telling Our Story, Because No One Else Will: Cape Verdean Transnational Identity Formation as Knowledge Production
Gibau, G.S. "Telling Our Story, Because No One Else Will: Cape Verdean Transnational Identity Formation as Knowledge Production." Mande Studies, 16-17 (2015): 107-117.
Where Blackness and Cape Verdeanness Intersect: Reflections on a Monoracial and Multiethnic Reality in the United States
Liu, Callie Watkins. "Where Blackness and Cape Verdeanness Intersect: Reflections on a Monoracial and Multiethnic Reality in the United States". Journal of Cape Verdean Studies, 4(1) (2019):43-62.