Mapping Diaspora
African American Roots Tourism in Brazil
Patricia de Santana Pinho
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/2018
Pages: 272
Subject: Social Science, Travel
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Print ISBN: 9.78147E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469645339
DESCRIPTION
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.
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