One of the few interdisciplinary volumes on Bahia available, The
Making of Brazil's Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered contains
contributions covering a wide chronological and topical range by
scholars whose work has made important contributions to the field
of Bahian studies over the last two decades. The authors
interrogate and problematize the idea of Bahia as a Black Mecca, or
a haven where Brazilians of African descent can embrace their
cultural and spiritual African heritage without fear of
discrimination. In the first section, leading historians create a
century-long historical narrative of the emergence of these
discourses, their limitations, and their inability to effect
meaningful structural change. chapters by social scientists in the
second section present critical reflections and insights, some
provocative, on deficiencies and problematic biases built into
current research paradigms on blackness in Bahia. As a whole the
text provides a series of insights into the ways that inequality
has been structured in Bahia since the final days of slavery.
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