Mapping Diaspora
African American Roots Tourism in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20031839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patricia De Santana Pinho (0000-0002-7438-9376, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Mapping Diaspora (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469645322.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4231095283 |
| Open Library | OL28691791M |
| ISBN | 9781469645322 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Brazil, like some 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. Pinho traces the origins of roots tourism to the late 1970s, when groups of black intellectuals, artists, and activists found themselves drawn especially to Bahia, the state that in previous centuries had absorbed the largest number of enslaved Africans. African Americans have become frequent travelers across what Pinho calls the "map of Africanness" that connects diasporic communities and stimulates transnational solidarities while simultaneously exposing the unevenness of the black diaspora. Roots tourism, Pinho finds, is a fertile site to examine the tensions between racial and national identities as well as the gendered dimensions of travel, particularly when women are the major roots-seekers
Aesthetics · Art · Diaspora · Ethnography · Geography · Identity (music) · Participant observation · Political science · Politics · Seekers · Sociology · State (computer science) · Tourism · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Sex work and related issues · African americans · African diaspora · Blacks · Brazil
Fabulous Transactions
Not Your Grandma’s Fascism
Ethnography in/for sustainable tourism
Back to the roots
We’re no longer the senzala ”
‘Tornar-se negra, tornar-se branca’ e os riscos do ‘antirracismo de fachada’ no Brasil contemporâneo
Journeys to and among the Margins
We Bring Home the Roots
Racial Excess
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |