A challenging portrait of the Cape Verdeans in Portugal; it is the only ethnographic study of its kind. Lu?'s Batalha focuses simultaneously on former colonial subjects-cum-labor migrants and the elite, former colonialist, strata of society. The result of this comparative study lays bare the socio-cultural dynamics of race, gender, and post colonialism in the Cape Verde community.

Chapter 1 The Cape Verde Islands Chapter 2 The Origin and Transformation of Cape Verdean Society Chapter 3 The Creation of "the Cape Verde Man" Chapter 4 The Portuguese Cape Verdean "Elite" Chapter 5 The Cape Verdean Labor Migrants Chapter 6 The Cape Verdeans: Views from Without