Bahia

Rooted in West and Central African, Amerindian, and popular Catholic influences, Candomblé constitutes a set of ritual practices that cohered among enslaved Africans and their descendants on Brazil’s sugar plantations between the 16th and 19th centuries. Across a range of tradit…

Beyond formal and iconographic discourse there has been little consideration of Juan Bautista Maíno's La Recuperación de Bahía de Todos los Santos's (1634-5) role as a representative of the New World and the perceived fragility of the imperial project in Brazil. This thesis depa…

This dissertation explores various elements and issues of the black movement in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, through activists' personal stories, intra- and inter-movement politics and dynamics, and the diasporic character of the movement. I argue that the interplay of racial framew…