Selling Black Brazil : race, nation, and visual culture in Salvador, Bahia /

Using striking visual and textual records produced for the promotion of tourism, Romo shows how Bahia, which was home to the largest port for African slaves in the Americas and continued to maintain a distinctly Afro-Brazilian demographic and culture, became one of the most popular regions in Brazil...

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Main Author: Romo, Anadelia A. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022].
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505 0 |a Introduction: race, identity, and visual culture in the Americas -- Precedents and backdrops: racial types and modern ports -- Colonial churches and the rise of the quintessential Black city: modernism, travel, and the pathbreaking guide of Jorge Amado -- Pierre Verger and the construction of a Black folk, 1946-1951 -- Festive streets: Carybé and Bahian modernism -- "Human and picturesque": consolidation in the Bahian tourist guides of the 1950s -- All roads lead to Black Rome: how the religion of "secrets" became a tourist attraction -- Epilogue. 
520 |a Using striking visual and textual records produced for the promotion of tourism, Romo shows how Bahia, which was home to the largest port for African slaves in the Americas and continued to maintain a distinctly Afro-Brazilian demographic and culture, became one of the most popular regions in Brazil among tourists from both Latin America and the United States, one that was actively promoted for this purpose by government-sponsored tourism boards, foreign visual artists and local writers. 
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650 0 |a City promotion  |z Brazil  |z Salvador  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a National characteristics, Brazilian. 
650 0 |a Black people  |z Brazil  |x Social conditions. 
650 0 |a Indigenous peoples  |z Brazil  |x Social conditions. 
651 0 |a Salvador (Brazil)  |v Guidebooks  |x History  |y 20th century  |v Pictorial works. 
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