Mapping diaspora : African American roots tourism in Brazil /

"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 invest...

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Main Author: Pinho, Patricia de Santana (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Table of 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.