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Undid revisions by Virtualtyper. A majority of C. Verdeans DO have Port. ancestry (43% Euro., on average); even moreso in Brazil.
m Undid revision 582827545 by Goodsdrew Having partial Portuguese ancestry does not make one Luso. People from Senegal are part French. Still they are not Franco-Americans.
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Luso Americans (occasionally known as [[Portuguese-Americans]]) are citizens of the [[United States]] whose ancestry originates in the southwest European nation of [[Portugal]], including the offshore island groups of the [[Azores]] and [[Madeira]].
The prefix '''Luso-''' indicates a relation to the [[Lusitania]], [[Portugal]] or the [[Portuguese people]],<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/luso</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=9F4CAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR21&dq=The+Lusiads&hl=en&ei=tVFlTbq5CIP7lwef05nCBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=lusus&f=false The Lusiads, tr. into Engl. verse by J.J. Aubertin 1878]</ref> as in the terms [[Portuguese American]], [[Portuguese Brazilian|Luso- Brasileiros]],<ref>http://www.comunidadeluso-brasileira.com.br</ref> [[Portuguese Africans|Luso-Africans]],<ref>http://www.rtp.pt/icmblogs/rtp/voto-sul-africano/?k=LUSO-DESCENDENTE-AO-PARLAMENTO.rtp&post=9661</ref> Luso-Asian.<ref>http://www.lusa.pt/lusaweb/user/showitem?service=310&listid=NewsList310&listpage=1&docid=9911813</ref> It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] descent in [[United States]], [[South America]], [[Africa]], [[Indian subcontinent]]. It is also used, both in [[Portuguese language|Portuguese-speaking]] and non-Portuguese-speaking countries pertaining to an area of influence by Portugal in language and culture

The prefix '''Luso-''' indicates a relation to [[Lusitania]], [[Portugal]] or the [[Portuguese people]],<ref>http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/luso</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=9F4CAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR21&dq=The+Lusiads&hl=en&ei=tVFlTbq5CIP7lwef05nCBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=lusus&f=false The Lusiads, tr. into Engl. verse by J.J. Aubertin 1878]</ref> as in the terms [[Portuguese American]].
It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of [[Portuguese people|Portuguese]] descent in [[United States]], [[South America]], [[Africa]], [[Indian subcontinent]] and [[Asia]].


Luso is a [[Late Latin]] [[Prefix (linguistics)|prefix]] used to denote [[Portugal|Portuguese]]- in conjunction with another [[toponym]] or [[demonym]]. The word is [[Etymology|derived]] from [[Lusitania]], the [[Latin name]] for what would be modern [[Portugal]]. [[Lusitania]] was an ancient [[Roman province]] including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the [[Douro]] river and part of modern [[Spain]] (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a small part of the province of Salamanca). It was named after the [[Lusitanians]] or Lusitanian people (an [[Indo-European]] [[people]]). Its capital was [[Emerita Augusta]] (currently Mérida, Spain), and it was initially part of the Roman Republic province of Hispania Ulterior, before becoming a province of its own in the Roman Empire.The etymology of ''Lusitania'', like the origin of the Lusitani who gave the province their name, is unclear. The name may be of Celtic origin: ''Lus'' and ''Tanus'', "tribe of Lusus", connecting the name with the personal Celtic name ''Luso'' and with the god [[Lugh]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=M1JIPAN-eJ4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Placenames+of+the+World:+Origins+and+Meanings+of+the+Names+for+6,600+...+By+Adrian+Room&sig=bPqZQvDFUdcHLia8GHNknRwreuk Room, Adrian. ''Placenames of the World''. pg 228]</ref>
Luso is a [[Late Latin]] [[Prefix (linguistics)|prefix]] used to denote [[Portugal|Portuguese]]- in conjunction with another [[toponym]] or [[demonym]]. The word is [[Etymology|derived]] from [[Lusitania]], the [[Latin name]] for what would be modern [[Portugal]]. [[Lusitania]] was an ancient [[Roman province]] including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the [[Douro]] river and part of modern [[Spain]] (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a small part of the province of Salamanca). It was named after the [[Lusitanians]] or Lusitanian people (an [[Indo-European]] [[people]]). Its capital was [[Emerita Augusta]] (currently Mérida, Spain), and it was initially part of the Roman Republic province of Hispania Ulterior, before becoming a province of its own in the Roman Empire.The etymology of ''Lusitania'', like the origin of the Lusitani who gave the province their name, is unclear. The name may be of Celtic origin: ''Lus'' and ''Tanus'', "tribe of Lusus", connecting the name with the personal Celtic name ''Luso'' and with the god [[Lugh]].<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=M1JIPAN-eJ4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Placenames+of+the+World:+Origins+and+Meanings+of+the+Names+for+6,600+...+By+Adrian+Room&sig=bPqZQvDFUdcHLia8GHNknRwreuk Room, Adrian. ''Placenames of the World''. pg 228]</ref>
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==Luso-American ethnic group in the United States==
==Luso-American ethnic group in the United States==


This usage originated in the discussion of the history of Portuguese-speaking people in the United States.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=CCedAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA11&dq=luso+americano&hl=en&ei=TCJkTc3yO8OqlAfi9KDUCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=10&ved=0CFEQuwUwCQ#v=onepage&q=luso%20americano&f=false "Journal of American folklore, Volume 5 By American Folklore Society by Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1892 pg 11"]</ref> Luso-Americans like other Portuguese speakers are traditionally Roman Catholic.The term ''Luso'' was generally used for people of Portuguese-American heritage, origin, or background language in magazines,<ref>[http://www.lusoamericano.com]</ref> Fraternal Societies<ref>http://www.luso-american.org</ref> and private Portuguese institutions<ref>http://www.flad.pt/?no=1010002</ref>
This usage originated in the discussion of the history of Portuguese immigrants and its descendants, in the United States.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=CCedAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA11&dq=luso+americano&hl=en&ei=TCJkTc3yO8OqlAfi9KDUCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-preview-link&resnum=10&ved=0CFEQuwUwCQ#v=onepage&q=luso%20americano&f=false "Journal of American folklore, Volume 5 By American Folklore Society by Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1892 pg 11"]</ref> Luso-Americans like other Portuguese people are traditionally Roman Catholic. The term ''Luso'' was generally used for people of Portuguese-American heritage, origin, or background language in magazines,<ref>[http://www.lusoamericano.com]</ref> Fraternal Societies<ref>http://www.luso-american.org</ref> and private Portuguese institutions<ref>http://www.flad.pt/?no=1010002</ref>

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Luso-Americans and Portuguese-speaking Americans can be found in all states and there are sizable Luso-American communities in [[California]], [[Massachusetts]], [[New Jersey]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Rhode Island]], [[New York]], [[Hawaii]], [[Florida]], [[Delaware]] and [[Virginia]]. In total, the members of this community may be more than 3.5 million Americans. Two [[County (United States)|United States counties]], namely [[Bristol County, Rhode Island]] and [[Bristol County, Massachusetts]], are home to pluralities of people of Portuguese ancestry. There was dense Portuguese settlement in the [[Salinas Valley|Salinas]] and [[San Joaquin Valley]]s in California, namely the cities of [[Los Banos, California|Los Banos]] and [[Hollister, California|Hollister]]. {{Citation needed|date=May 2008}}

Distinct from these, there are in the US communities of non-European Portuguese-speakers such as [[Brazilian American]]s and [[Angolan American]]s.


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Luso-Americans can be found in all states and there are sizable Luso-American communities in [[California]], [[Massachusetts]], [[New Jersey]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[Rhode Island]], [[New York]], [[Hawaii]], [[Florida]], [[Delaware]] and [[Virginia]]. In total, the members of this community may be more than 3.5 million Americans. Two [[County (United States)|United States counties]], namely [[Bristol County, Rhode Island]] and [[Bristol County, Massachusetts]], are home to pluralities of people of Portuguese ancestry. There was dense Portuguese settlement in the [[Salinas Valley|Salinas]] and [[San Joaquin Valley]]s in California, namely the cities of [[Los Banos, California|Los Banos]] and [[Hollister, California|Hollister]]. {{Citation needed|date=May 2008}}
===Jewish Luso-Americans===
[[ File:Touro external.png|thumb|right|200px|Luso-American [[Sephardic Jews]] established the [[Touro Synagogue]], the United States' first, in [[Newport, Rhode Island]].]]
In September 1654, shortly before the [[Jewish New Year]], twenty-three Portuguese Jews from [[Recife]], Brazil - where they had sided with the [[Dutch Brazil|Dutch rule]] which on that year came to an end - arrived in New York, which at the time was under Dutch rule and known as New Amsterdam.<ref>Center for Jewish History http://www.cjh.org/p/52</ref> This arrival was shortly after the beginning of [[American Jew|Jewish-American]] history. [[Sephardic]] Portuguese Jews were also the early settlers of [[Newport, Rhode Island]] (where the [[Touro Synagogue|country's first synagogue]] was founded), [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[Philadelphia]] and [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]].


==Language==
==Language==
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The [[Ironbound]] section of [[Newark, New Jersey]] is also called "Little Portugal". There are also Portuguese-speaking and [[Portuguese-based creole languages]] American citizens from [[Lusophone]] countries in the [[United States]] from [[Asia]], [[Brazilian American|South America]], [[Cape Verdean|Africa]] and [[India]].
The [[Ironbound]] section of [[Newark, New Jersey]] is also called "Little Portugal". There are also Portuguese-speaking and [[Portuguese-based creole languages]] American citizens from [[Lusophone]] countries in the [[United States]] from [[Asia]], [[Brazilian American|South America]], [[Cape Verdean|Africa]] and [[India]].


==Notable individuals==
==Notable Luso Americans==

===Portuguese===
{{main|List of Portuguese-Americans}}
{{main|List of Portuguese-Americans}}
[[ File:Leroy A Mendonca.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Leroy A. Mendonca]], Portuguese-American recipient of the [[Medal of Honor]] during the [[Korean War]].]]
[[ File:Leroy A Mendonca.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Leroy A. Mendonca]], Portuguese-American recipient of the [[Medal of Honor]] during the [[Korean War]].]]
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*[[David Silveria]] - Musician, former drummer of [[Korn]].
*[[David Silveria]] - Musician, former drummer of [[Korn]].
*[[Dev (singer)|Dev]] - singer with Portuguese and Mexican background
*[[Dev (singer)|Dev]] - singer with Portuguese and Mexican background

===Brazilian===
* [[Miguel Nicolelis]] - Physician and scientist. Involved in brain-computer interface research.
* [[Paula Abdul]] - Singer with a Syrian-Brazilian father
* [[Janeth Arcain]] - Professional basketball player ([[Women's National Basketball Association|WNBA]]) with the [[Houston Comets]]
* [[Morena Baccarin]] - Actress
* [[Camilla Belle]] - Actress ''[[When a Stranger Calls (2006 film)|When a Stranger Calls]]''<ref>[http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/CoolNewStuff/Details.aspx?StoryID=35465] "She's part Brazilian – her mother is from Sao Paulo" [http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/03/02/arts/14697.shtml] "Belle already speaks fluent Portuguese — her mother is Brazilian"</ref>
* [[Jordana Brewster]] - Actress<ref>[http://www.celebritywonder.com/html/jordanabrewster.html] "Nationality:, American/Brazilian" [http://www.lesbianation.com/scene/star.cfm?trotterid=271&showinfo=yes] "The 5’7’’ American Brazilian actress..."</ref>
* [[Bob Burnquist]] - Brazilian-born skateboarder
* [[Bruno Campos]] - Actor
* [[Flavia Colgan]] - Political strategist
* [[Jane Engelhard]] - Philanthropist
* [[Ryan Hollweg]] - Hockey player
* [[Thomas Mann]] - Novelist. (Brazilian mother)
* [[Sérgio Mendes]] - Singer
* [[Nancy Randall]] - Model
* [[Robert Rey]] - Plastic surgeon and TV host
* [[Eduardo Saverin]] - Founder Facebook
* [[Bidu Sayão]] - Opera singer
* [[Anderson Varejao]] - Basketball player
* [[Andreas Kisser]] - Guitar player
* [[Betty Lago]] - Model during the 1980s
* [[Paulo Szot]] - Opera singer

===Angolan===
* [[Hugo Ferreira]]-Rock Singer

===Mozambican===
* [[Teresa Heinz Kerry]] - wife of U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate [[John Kerry]]
* [[Victor Nogueira]] - soccer player

===Cape-Verdean===
[[File:LisaLopesImg.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Lisa Lopes]], American musician of Cape-Verdean descent.]]
* [[Michael Beach]]
* [[Davey Lopes]] - Major League Baseball Player and Manager
* [[Lisa Lopes|Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes]] - rapper
* [[Peter J. Gomes]] - Minister, Memorial Church of the Harvard University.
* [[Paul Gonsalves]] - musician
* [[Tony Gonzalez (tight end)|Tony Gonzales]] - National Football League player
* [[Paul Pena]] - musician
* [[Horace Silver]] jazz musician
* [[Tavares (band)]], a Disco band from the 1970s.

===Indian===
* [[Dinesh D'Souza]]
* [[Sid D'Souza]]

===Chinese===
* [[Ming-Na]]
* [[John Lone]]
* [[Fernando Cheung]]
* [[Isabella Leong]]

===Sephardic===
* [[Jacob Lumbrozo]] - colonist
* [[Judah P. Benjamin]] - politician and lawyer
* [[Albert Cardozo]] - jurist
* [[Benjamin Cardozo]] - New York Supreme Court Justice.
* [[Emma Lazarus]] - poet
* [[Mordecai Manuel Noah]] - [[playwright]], [[diplomat]], [[journalist]], and [[utopia]]n
* [[Judah Monis]] - Hebrew scholar
* [[Vic Seixas]] - tennis player

===Caribbean===
* [[Steven E. de Souza]] - [[Film producer|producer]], [[film director|director]] and [[screenwriter]]


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 15:41, 22 November 2013

Luso Americans (occasionally known as Portuguese-Americans) are citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the southwest European nation of Portugal, including the offshore island groups of the Azores and Madeira.

The prefix Luso- indicates a relation to Lusitania, Portugal or the Portuguese people,[1][2] as in the terms Portuguese American. It is often used alone, somewhat loosely, to refer to people of Portuguese descent in United States, South America, Africa, Indian subcontinent and Asia.

Luso is a Late Latin prefix used to denote Portuguese- in conjunction with another toponym or demonym. The word is derived from Lusitania, the Latin name for what would be modern Portugal. Lusitania was an ancient Roman province including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the Douro river and part of modern Spain (the present autonomous community of Extremadura and a small part of the province of Salamanca). It was named after the Lusitanians or Lusitanian people (an Indo-European people). Its capital was Emerita Augusta (currently Mérida, Spain), and it was initially part of the Roman Republic province of Hispania Ulterior, before becoming a province of its own in the Roman Empire.The etymology of Lusitania, like the origin of the Lusitani who gave the province their name, is unclear. The name may be of Celtic origin: Lus and Tanus, "tribe of Lusus", connecting the name with the personal Celtic name Luso and with the god Lugh.[3]

Luso-American ethnic group in the United States

This usage originated in the discussion of the history of Portuguese immigrants and its descendants, in the United States.[4] Luso-Americans like other Portuguese people are traditionally Roman Catholic. The term Luso was generally used for people of Portuguese-American heritage, origin, or background language in magazines,[5] Fraternal Societies[6] and private Portuguese institutions[7]

Luso-Americans can be found in all states and there are sizable Luso-American communities in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New York, Hawaii, Florida, Delaware and Virginia. In total, the members of this community may be more than 3.5 million Americans. Two United States counties, namely Bristol County, Rhode Island and Bristol County, Massachusetts, are home to pluralities of people of Portuguese ancestry. There was dense Portuguese settlement in the Salinas and San Joaquin Valleys in California, namely the cities of Los Banos and Hollister. [citation needed]

Language

Azulejo tiles in the Portuguese-American neighborhood of Ironbound, New Jersey.

Portuguese is spoken in the United States by Portuguese and Lusophone communities of immigrants, especially in:

California
Connecticut
Florida
Massachusetts
Nevada
New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island

The Ironbound section of Newark, New Jersey is also called "Little Portugal". There are also Portuguese-speaking and Portuguese-based creole languages American citizens from Lusophone countries in the United States from Asia, South America, Africa and India.

Notable Luso Americans

Main article: List of Portuguese-Americans
Leroy A. Mendonca, Portuguese-American recipient of the Medal of Honor during the Korean War.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/luso
  2. ^ The Lusiads, tr. into Engl. verse by J.J. Aubertin 1878
  3. ^ Room, Adrian. Placenames of the World. pg 228
  4. ^ "Journal of American folklore, Volume 5 By American Folklore Society by Houghton, Mifflin, and Co., 1892 pg 11"
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ http://www.luso-american.org
  7. ^ http://www.flad.pt/?no=1010002
  8. ^ "Site Vasco Nunes".
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