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