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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.
Contents
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
