Research
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City Builders featured in RTPi’s “Hora dos Portugueses”
My City Builders project was featured in an episode of the show “Hora dos Portugueses” on Portugal’s international public TV broadcaster RTPi. You can watch it here (starting at 9’15”). O meu projeto City Builders foi foco de uma reportagem no programa “Hora dos Portugueses” na RTPi. Pode ver o episódio aqui (início ao minuto 9’15”).
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TV interview about the Carnations Revolution’s impact on Portuguese-Canadians
The Toronto-based, Portuguese-language TV channel Correio da Manhã TV – Canadá interviewed me recently about the impact of the Carnations Revolution on the Portuguese in Canada. You can watch it below:
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My new research/ public history project: City Builders: An Oral History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Postwar Toronto
Last September, I started a new research and public history project called City Builders: An Oral History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Postwar Toronto, associated with York University’s Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and the Laborers International Union of North America Local 183. This project will record, examine, and divulge the history of Toronto’s immigrant construction workers…
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Toronto the Bad: A Riots Map and Timeline
There has been over eighty riots throughout the history of Toronto, some of them quite large. This seemingly high number contradicts the idea of a peaceful and even dull “Toronto the Good,” and of Canada as a land of peace, order, and good governance, where differences have been negotiated through compromise, unlike our southern neighbours.…
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Digital map of Portuguese communities in Canada
For the 64th anniversary of the arrival of the first group of Portuguese “bulk order” migrant workers on Pier 21, in Halifax, I have created a digital map with the current location of and statistics about the largest Portuguese immigrant, ethnic, and speaking communities in Canada. You can find it here.
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“Oh Famous Race!” New article in The Public Historian
My latest article came out in the University of California Press’ and National Council on Public History’s journal The Public Historian, 18: 1 (February 2016): 18-47. It examines the transnational and international politics and motivations behind the Eurocentric campaigns of Portuguese American heritage advocates to memorialize the sixteenth-century navigators Miguel Corte-Real and Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo…
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Gilberto Fernandes, Ph.D.!
It’s done! After five long, labour-intensive years, I successfully defended my dissertation Of Outcasts and Ambassadors: the Making of Portuguese Diaspora in Postwar North America on September 12, thus fulfilling all requirements for obtaining my Ph.D. degree in History at York University. My dissertation committee – Dr. Roberto Perin (supervisor), Dr. Adrian Shubert, Dr. William…
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