{"product_id":"selling-black-brazil-anadelia-romo-9781477324196","title":"Selling Black Brazil: Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2023 Honorable Mention, Brazil Section Humanities Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book explores visual portrayals of blackness in Brazil to reveal the integral role of visual culture in crafting race and nation across Latin America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the early twentieth century, Brazil shifted from a nation intent on whitening its population to one billing itself as a racial democracy. Anadelia Romo shows that this shift centered in Salvador, Bahia, where throughout the 1950s, modernist artists and intellectuals forged critical alliances with Afro-Brazilian religious communities of Candomblé to promote their culture and their city. These efforts combined with a growing promotion of tourism to transform what had been one of the busiest slaving depots in the Americas into a popular tourist enclave celebrated for its rich Afro-Brazilian culture. Vibrant illustrations and texts by the likes of Jorge Amado, Pierre Verger, and others contributed to a distinctive iconography of the city, with Afro-Bahians at its center. But these optimistic visions of inclusion, Romo reveals, concealed deep racial inequalities. Illustrating how these visual archetypes laid the foundation for Salvador's modern racial landscape, this book unveils the ways ethnic and racial populations have been both included and excluded not only in Brazil but in Latin America as a whole. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anadelia Romo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477324194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477324196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.40d","brand":"Anadelia Romo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44045460865279,"sku":"9781477324196","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d99d399d-c1db-435b-8a7f-3ec254f55ce9.jpg?v=1684978886","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/selling-black-brazil-anadelia-romo-9781477324196","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}