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The making of Brazil's Black Mecca : Bahia reconsidered /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ickes, Scott (Editor ), Reiter, Bernd, 1968- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Colección:Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.