... The particular technologies through which IPAC produces its version of history educate in turn the Pelourinho’s population as to the practical impossibility of such a history. This chapter examines disputes over property and patrimony as the state government seeks to turn the buildings occupied...

... This chapter describes how thousands of working-class youths come to the Pelourinho on Sunday nights to sing in unison as they “translate” classic Jamaican reggae songs into Portuguese entirely on the basis of the songs’ prosody. It examines how the discussions of commodities and consumption...

... This chapter highlights some of the difficulties of an academic ethnography in the Pelourinho. It seeks to establish a position from which to represent the Afro-Brazilian women at the center of the story of the post–World War II Pelourinho without repeating the tension between pathologization...

... This chapter introduces aspects of the sociopolitical, economic, and physical conditions of the Pelourinho neighborhood. By the mid-1990s the ongoing reforms of the Pelourinho had divided the neighborhood into two main areas: a gleaming restored shrine to Bahian culture and an area of decaying...

... Afro-Brazilian Cachoeira Pelourinho postracial racial paradise ...

... the health professionals and leaving them speechless. Here the author presents more of the ways that the state-directed changes and divisions of the Pelourinho have made residents keenly aware of their special roles in the neighborhood’s sacralization, their places in shifting definitions of historical truth...

.... The chapter goes on to demonstrate how the presence of Black Americans authenticates these myths. Afro-Brazilian Cachoeira Pelourinho postracial racial paradise ...

... to locals and tourists alike produce dangers and benefits for the state and the identities it seeks to engender. This has led to the meticulously planned yet haltingly orchestrated expulsion of the majority of Pelourinho residents to those far-off neighborhoods where, in the logic of the state...

... on the part of what the author calls “properly historical subjects” of both the experience and the effects of passing from being spectators to being the objects of someone else’s surveillance is basic to understanding the iconoclastic forms of belonging that have developed as the Pelourinho and its...