Writing Bahian Identity

Crafting New Narratives of Blackness in Salvador, Brazil, 1940s-1950s

Bibliographic Data

ID3561306
AuthorsAnadelia A Romo (0000-0001-6522-3035, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume50
Issue4
Pages805-832
Publication date2018-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x18000330
OpenAlexW2803277514
LanguageEN
References cited38

This article studies the intersections between race and regional identity in the 1940s and 1950s in Salvador, Bahia, a critical site for the African diaspora. It examines how tourist guides produced for domestic consumption, first by Jorge Amado and later by intellectuals Odorico Tavares and José Valladares, sought to frame the city in new ways around blackness. Grounding the production of such guides in national trends for mobility and travel, the article proposes that they provided a foundational site for the crafting of a regional identity. Critically, these texts established early links between a commodified black culture and tourism in ways that would prove exceptionally long-lasting

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Commodification · Consumption (sociology) · Diaspora · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Humanities · Identity (music) · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Race (biology) · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Urban and sociocultural dynamics

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