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

Author
Pinho, Patricia de Santana
Additional Titles
African American roots tourism in Brazil
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Copyright Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages)
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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"--
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ISBN
9781469645339 (electronic bk.)
1469645335 (electronic bk.)
9781469645346 (electronic bk.)
1469645343 (electronic bk.)
9781469645315 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1469645319 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781469645322 (paperback ; alk. paper)
1469645327 (paperback ; alk. paper)
9798890853370 (e-book)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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