The making of Brazil's Black Mecca : Bahia reconsidered /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series.
Subject:	Blacks -- Race identity -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) Blacks -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Social life and customs. Blacks -- Race identity. Blacks -- Social life and customs. Civilization -- African influences. Bahia (Brazil : State) -- Civilization -- African influences. Bahia (Brazil : State) -- History. Brazil -- Bahia (State) History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12541776

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Other authors / contributors:	Ickes, Scott, editor. Reiter, Bernd, 1968- editor.
ISBN:	9781609175740 1609175743 9781611862942 1611862949 1609175743 9781628953404 1628953403 9781628963403 1628963409
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
Summary:	"The Making of Brazil's Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered contains contributions covering a wide chronological and topical range by scholars whose work has made important contributions to the field of Bahian studies over the last two decades. The authors interrogate and problematize the idea of Bahia as a Black Mecca, or a haven where Brazilians of African descent can embrace their cultural and spiritual African heritage without fear of discrimination. In the first section, leading historians create a century-long historical narrative of the emergence of these discourses, their limitations, and their inability to effect meaningful structural change. The chapters by social scientists in the second section present critical reflections and insights, some provocative, on deficiencies and problematic biases built into current research paradigms on blackness in Bahia. As a whole the text provides a series of insights into the ways that inequality has been structured in Bahia since the final days of slavery."--Publisher description
Other form:	Print version: Making of Brazil's Black Mecca. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2018 9781611862942
Standard no.:	40028606858

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Baianidade
roads to and from a Black Rome/Black Mecca / Scott Ickes and Bernd Reiter
The English professors of Brazil : on the diasporic roots of the Yorùbá nation / J. Lorand Matory
Carnival, culture and Black citizenship in post-abolition Bahia / Kim D. Butler
Racialization in the time of abolition : negotiations over freedom and the freedom of men and women of color in Bahia / Wlamyra Albuquerque
Medicalized motherhood as race and place : Bahia 1930s-1940s / Okezi T. Otovo
O que é que a Bahia representa? Bahia's State Museum and the struggles to define Bahian culture / Andelia Romo
"Behold our city" : conflicting mid-century modernist visions of Afro-Bahia / Scott Ickes
Sweet barbarians: Baianidade and the Brazilian counterculture of the 1970s / Christopher Dunn
Precarious Bahia : colonial narratives to the images of Mário Cravo Neto / Elane Abreu
The power of whiteness and the making of the other : Bahia of the white mind? / Bernd Reiter
City of women, no city for women : the gendered twist on Black Mecca / Sarah Hautzinger
Our slaveland / Fernando Conceição
The politics of blackness in Salvador, Bahia / Gladys Mitchell-Walthour
Candomblé and the magic of Bahia / Miriam C.M. Rabelo & Luciana Duccini
"Now you are eating slave food!" / Scott Alves Barton
Conclusion / Bernd Reiter.

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