The making of Brazil's Black Mecca : Bahia reconsidered / edited by Scott Ickes and Bernd Reiter.

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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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"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

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