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Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil

Name: Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
SKU: 9781469645322
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Contributors:

Patricia De Santana Pinho

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Travel

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, Anthropology, South America

Book Topic:

American, Cultural & Social, Brazil

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Release Date:

2018-12-17

ISBN 13:

9781469645322

Weight:

0.93 lbs

Size:

9.21 x 6.14 x 0.61 inches

Pages:

272

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Brazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research as well as textual, visual, and archival sources, Patricia de Santana Pinho investigates African American roots tourism, a complex, poignant kind of travel that provides profound personal and collective meaning for those searching for black identity and heritage. It also provides, as Pinho's interviews with Brazilian tour guides, state officials, and Afro-Brazilian activists reveal, economic and political rewards that support a structured industry.

Pinho traces the origins of roots tourism to the late 1970s, when groups of black intellectuals, artists, and activists found themselves drawn especially to Bahia, the state that in previous centuries had absorbed the largest number of enslaved Africans. African Americans have become frequent travelers across what Pinho calls the "map of Africanness" that connects diasporic communities and stimulates transnational solidarities while simultaneously exposing the unevenness of the black diaspora. Roots tourism, Pinho finds, is a fertile site to examine the tensions between racial and national identities as well as the gendered dimensions of travel, particularly when women are the major roots-seekers.

About the Author
Patricia de Santana Pinho, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Mama Africa.

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