Brazil's living museum : race, reform, and tradition in Bahia

Brazil's living museum : race, reform, and tradition in Bahia /

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. Chronicling the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil's...

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Main Author: Romo, Anadelia A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Subjects:
Black people > Brazil > Bahia (State) > Government relations.
Black people > Race identity > Brazil > Bahia (State) > History.
Politics and culture > Brazil > Bahia (State) > History.
Bahia (Brazil : State) > History.
Bahia (Brazil : State) > Race relations.
Bahia (Brazil : State) > Civilization > African influences.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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