- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) : illustrations.
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Mapping Diaspora (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Mapping Diaspora (Online)
- African American roots tourism in Brazil
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2018016247
- OCLC
- ssj0002069962
- Author
Pinho, Patricia de Santana.
- Title
Mapping Diaspora [electronic resource] : African American Roots Tourism in Brazil / Patricia de Santana Pinho.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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