African-Brazilian culture and regional identity in Bahia, Brazil [electronic resource] / Scott Ickes.
Series: New World diasporas seriesPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.Description: xi, 322 p. : ill., mapISBN:- 9780813044781 (alk. paper)
- 9780813048383 (e-book)
- 305.800981/42 23
- F2551 .I25 2013eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Brazil's Black Rome and the remaking of Bahian regional identity -- Salvador, Bahia, 1930-1954 -- The revitalization of African-Bahian culture -- Performing Bahia: public festivals, samba, and African-Bahian agency -- Rituals of inclusion: evolving discourses of Bahianness -- Carnival of the people: Batucadas and Afox�es -- The project of regional identity formation: culture, politics, and tourism -- Conclusion and epilogue: cultural politics in Bahia.
An examination of why Afro-Bahian people are a marginalized racial group despite the fact that Bahia has a majority black population.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.