Brazil's living museum : race, reform, and tradition in Bahia / Anadelia A. Romo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romo, Anadelia A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Brazil--Bahia (State)--Government relations.

Black people.

Black people--Race identity--Brazil--Bahia (State)--History.

Politics and culture--Brazil--Bahia (State)--History.

Politics and culture.

Bahia (Brazil : State)--History.

Bahia (Brazil : State).

Bahia (Brazil : State)--Race relations.

Bahia (Brazil : State)--Civilization--African influences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter of Brazilian racial harmony. Yet this inclusive ideal has a complicated past. Chronicling the discourse among intellectuals and state officials during the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil's military regime in 1964, Anadelia Romo uncovers how the state's nonwhite majority moved from being a source of embarrassment to being a critical component of Bahia's identity. Romo examines id

Contents:

Introduction : Between Africa and Athens : Bahia's search for identity

Finding a cure for Bahia

Contests of culture

Preserving the past

Debating African roots

Embattled modernization and the retrenchment of tradition.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908848-4-8

979-88-9313-402-5

1-4696-0408-6

0-8078-9594-6

OCLC:

658201543