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Making of Brazil's Black Mecca

Bahia Reconsidered

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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One of the few interdisciplinary volumes on Bahia available, 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.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-10-01
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRuth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora
Antal sidor332
FörlagMichigan State University Press
ISBN9781611862942

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SCOTT ICKES is Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at Gustavus Adolphus College and author of African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil.BERND REITER is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of South Florida’s School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies. He is author of The Dialectics of Citizenship and The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the Path Ahead and coeditor of Bridging Scholarship and Activism and Afrodescendants, Identity, and the Struggle for development in the Americas.

Contents Preface Part 1. Historical Constructions of the Meanings of "Blackness" in Bahia J. Lorand Matory / The English Professors of Brazil: On the Diasporic Roots of the Yorùbá Nation Kim D. Butler / Carnival, Culture, and Black Citizenship in Post-Abolition Bahia Wlamyra Albuquerque / Racialization in the Time of Abolition: Negotiations over Freedom and the Freedom of Men and Women of Color in Bahia Okezi T. Otovo / Medicalized Motherhood as Race and Place: Bahia 1930s-1940s Anadelia A. Romo / O que é que a Bahia representa? Bahia's State Museum and the Struggles to Define Bahian Culture Scott Ickes / Behold Our City: Conflicting Mid-Century Modernist Visions of Afro-Bahia Christopher Dunn / Sweet Barbarians: Baianidade and the Brazilian Counterculture of the 1970s Elane Abreu / Precarious Bahia: Colonial Narratives to the Images of Mario Cravo Neto Part 2. Contemporary (De-)Constructions of the Black Mecca Bernd Reiter / The Power of Whiteness and the Making of the Other: Bahia of the White Mind? Sarah Hautzinger / City of Women, No City for Women: The Gendered Twist on Black Mecca Fernando Conceição / Our Slaveland Gladys Mitchell-Walthour / The Politics of Blackness in Salvador, Bahia Miriam C. M. Rabelo and Luciana Duccini / Candomblé and the Magic of Bahia Scott Alves Barton / Now You're Eating Slave Food! A Genealogy of Feijoada, Race, and Nation Bernd Reiter / Conclusion Contributors

“Combining the work of established and up-and-coming researchers, this interdisciplinary volume contributes to a greater understanding of the local and global significance of Bahia, a quasi-magical place that has long attracted the attention of Brazilian and foreign scholars, tourists, artists, and activists. Critically addressing the mystification of Bahia as the ‘Black Mecca,’ ‘Black Rome,’ and a version of ‘Africa in the Americas,’ the book underscores that the celebration of black culture does not necessarily reflect a regard for black lives.”—PATRICIA DE SANTANA PINHO, Associate Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, University of California Santa Cruz