Brazil's living museum [electronic resource] : race, reform, and tradition in Bahia / Anadelia A. Romo.

9781469604084 (ebook) :

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.

1 online resource (xi, 221 p.) : ill., 1 map

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Brazil's north-eastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicentre 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, this book uncovers how the state's non-white majority moved from being a source of embarrassment to being a critical component of Bahia's identity.

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May 06, 2016

Includes bibliographical references and index.