Brazil's living museum
Subtitle: race, reform, and tradition in Bahia
By: Anadelia A. Romo
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780807833827; 9780807871157
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Between Africa and Athens : Bahia's search for identity; title: Finding a cure for Bahia; title: Contests of culture; title: Preserving the past; title: Debating African roots; title: Embattled modernization and the retrenchment of tradition.