Mapping diaspora : African American roots tourism in Brazil / Patricia de Santana Pinho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pinho, Patricia de Santana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora.

Black people--Brazil.

Black people.

African Americans.

Brazil.

Tourism--Brazil.

Tourism.

African Americans--Brazil.

Physical Description:

xiii, 253 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

African American roots tourism in Brazil

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Brazil, like several 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

That's my face: African American reflections on Brazil

The way we were: Brazil in the African American roots tourist gaze

Black gringos in Brazil?: encounters in sameness, difference, solidarity, and inequality

We bring home the roots: African American women touring the diaspora and bearing the nation

The awakening giant: the state's belated acknowledgment of roots tourism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781469645322

1469645327

9781469645315

1469645319

OCLC:

1029448574