A Discontented DiasporaIn A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture. He does so by exploring particular experiences of young Japanese Brazilians who came of age in So Paulo during the 1960s and 1970s, an intensely authoritarian period of military rule. The most populous city in Brazil, So Paulo was also the worlds largest Japanese city outside of Japan by 1960. Believing that