Selling Black Brazil : race, nation, and visual culture in Salvador, Bahia

Selling Black Brazil : race, nation, and visual culture in Salvador, Bahia /

In the early twentieth century, Brazil shifted from a nation intent on whitening its population to one billing itself as a racial democracy. Anadelia Romo shows that this shift centered in Salvador, Bahia, where throughout the 1950s, modernist artists and intellectuals forged critical alliances with...

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Main Author: Romo, Anadelia A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2022
Subjects:
Culture and tourism > Brazil > Salvador > History > 20th century.
Tourism and art > Brazil > Salvador > History > 20th century > Pictorial works.
City promotion > Brazil > Salvador > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, Brazilian.
Black people > Brazil > Social conditions.
Indigenous peoples > Brazil > Social conditions.
Salvador (Brazil) > Guidebooks > History > 20th century > Pictorial works.
Salvador (Brazil) > Guidebooks > History > 20th century.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Glossary
  • Introduction: Race, Identity, and Visual Culture in the Americas
  • CHAPTER 1 Precedents and Backdrops: Racial Types and Modern Ports
  • CHAPTER 2 Colonial Churches and the Rise of the Quintessential Black City: Modernism, Travel, and the Pathbreaking Guide of Jorge Amado
  • CHAPTER 3 Pierre Verger and the Construction of a Black Folk, 1946-1951
  • CHAPTER 4 Festive Streets: Carybé and Bahian Modernism
  • CHAPTER 5 "Human and Picturesque": Consolidation in the Bahian Tourist Guides of the 1950s
  • CHAPTER 6 All Roads Lead to Black Rome: How the Religion of "Secrets" Became a Tourist Attraction
  • Epilogue: Reflection and Refraction
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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