Selling Black Brazil

Using striking visual and textual records produced for the promotion of tourism, Romo shows how Bahia, which was home to the largest port for African slaves in the Americas and continued to maintain a distinctly Afro-Brazilian demographic and culture, became one of the most popular regions in Brazil among tourists from both Latin America and the United States, one that was actively promoted for this purpose by government-sponsored tourism boards, foreign visual artists, and local writers--