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African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil

✍ Scribed by Scott Ickes

Publisher
University Press of Florida
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Leaves
340
Series
New World Diasporas
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia, is often referred to as “Brazil’s Black Rome.” Culturally complex, vibrant, and rich with history, its African-descended population is one of the largest in Latin America. Yet despite representing a majority of the population, African-Bahians remain a marginalized racial group within the state as a whole. In African-Brazilian Culture and Regional Identity in Bahia, Brazil, Scott Ickes examines how in the middle of the twentieth century, African-Bahian cultural practices such as capoeira, samba, and Candomblé during carnival and other popular religious festivals came to be accepted as essential components of Bahian regional identity. Previously, public performances of traditionally African-Bahian practices were repressed in favor of more European traditions and a more “modern” vision. Newfound acceptance of these customs was a democratic move forward, but it also perpetuated the political and economic marginalization of the black majority. Ickes argues that cultural-political alliances between African-Bahian cultural practitioners and their dominant-class allies nevertheless helped to create a meaningful framework through which African-Bahian inclusion could be negotiated—a framework that is also important in the larger discussions of race and regional and national identity throughout Brazil.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Brazil’s Black Rome and the Remaking of Bahian Regional Identity
1. Salvador, Bahia, 1930–1954
2. The Revitalization of African-Bahian Culture
3. Performing Bahia: Public Festivals, Samba, and African-Bahian Agency
4. Rituals of Inclusion: Evolving Discourses of Bahianness
5. Carnival of the People: Batucadas and Afoxés
6. The Project of Regional Identity Formation: Culture, Politics, and Tourism
Conclusion and Epilogue: Cultural Politics in Bahia
Appendix
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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