Brazil's Living Museum
Race, Reform, and Tradition in Bahia
Anadelia A. Romo
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 05/2010
Pages: 240
Subject: History, Social Science
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Print ISBN: 9.78E+12
eBook ISBN: 9780807895948
DESCRIPTION
Romo examines ideas of race in key cultural and public arenas through a close analysis of medical science, the arts, education, and the social sciences. As she argues, although Bahian racial thought came to embrace elements of Afro-Brazilian culture, the presentation of Bahia as a "living museum" threatened by social change portrayed Afro-Bahian culture and modernity as necessarily at odds. Romo's finely tuned account complicates our understanding of Brazilian racial ideology and enriches our knowledge of the constructions of race across Latin America and the larger African diaspora.