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Author Pinho, Patricia de Santana, author

Title Mapping diaspora : African American roots tourism in Brazil / Patricia de Santana Pinho
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages)
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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject African diaspora.
Black people -- Brazil.
Tourism -- Brazil
African Americans -- Brazil
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
African Americans
African diaspora
Black people
Tourism
Brazil
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469645339
1469645335
9781469645346
1469645343
9798890853370
Other Titles African American roots tourism in Brazil