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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Pinho, Patricia de Santana, author.

Series:

• North Carolina scholarship online.
• North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Culture and tourism--Brazil.
• Heritage tourism--Brazil.
• African Americans--Travel--Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

• Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
• Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Summary:

Brazil has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the black Atlantic diaspora. Drawing on ethnographic research and textual, visual, and archival sources, Patricia de Santana Pinho investigates African American roots tourism, a complex kind of travel that provides profound personal and collective meaning for those searching for black identity and heritage.

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:

• Previously issued in print: 2018.
• Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 16, 2019).
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 979-88-908533-6-3
• 979-88-908533-7-0
• 1-4696-4533-5
• 1-4696-4534-3

OCLC:

1059451004