Brazil's Living Museum: Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia

by Anadelia A. Romo

Book Overview

Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter 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, Anadelia Romo uncovers how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080787115X
• ISBN13: 9780807871157
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"