Reviews
" A provocative tour de force"
--CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
“With rich documentary material from press reports, letters, internal memos, and popular songs, Ickes’s book fills a major gap in the historiography of regional identity in Bahia and has much to offer to historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and scholars of other disciplines.”
--Hispanic American Historical Review
An important book that adds significantly to understandings of regional identity in Bahia in the twentieth century as well as the cultural and racial politics of Brazil.
--The Americas
One of the most encompassing studies on different aspects of several traditions of African origins in Bahia.
--Luso-Brazilian Review
Focuses on a hitherto understudied historical period and offers an approach which does not solely concentrate--as other studies have tended to do--on the actions of African-Brazilians or the influence of anthropologists and artists within African-Brazilian culture....Ickes’ contribution is very welcome, as, paradoxically, it provides an apparently more conventional narrative of history from the perspective of the powerful.
--Bulletin of Spanish Studies