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Africa in the Americas
African American tourism
African American tourists
African American women tourists
African Diaspora in the Americas
African diaspora tourism
African Heritage Tourism in Bahia
Afro-Brazilian culture
Afro-Brazilian identity
Afro-Latin America
Author_Patricia de Santana Pinho
Bahia
Black homeland
Black identities in the Americas
Black solidarity
Black transnational relations
Blackness in Latin America
Brazil
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Cultural heritage
Cultural roots
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Ethnic tourism
Gendered diasporas
Race and ethnicity
Roots Tourism
The tourist gaze
Transnational blackness
Product details
- ISBN 9781469645322
- Weight: 415g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 17 Dec 2018
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
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.
Patricia de Santana Pinho, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Mama Africa.
