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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.
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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Patricia de Santana Pinho, associate professor of Latin American and Latino studies at University of California, Santa Cruz, is the author of Mama Africa.
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The single most sophisticated treatment I have ever read of the encounter and relationship between African Americans and Afro-Brazilians, this exceedingly fine and elegantly written book makes an original and exciting contribution to scholarship on the African diaspora. Pinho brings enormous insight to understanding the mutual perceptions of African Americans and Afro-Brazilians as both engage in a subtly patterned waltz of mutual recognition and nonrecognition."—John S. Burdick, Syracuse University
Exploring how and why Brazil has become the most significant country outside of Africa for African American heritage tourists, Pinho makes a valuable theoretical contribution to African diaspora studies. Tourists seeking 'a shortcut to Africanness' reveal that interpersonal connections and cultural exchange within the African diaspora are as important as the teleological return to Africa."—Christopher Dunn, Tulane University
Exploring how and why Brazil has become the most significant country outside of Africa for African American heritage tourists, Pinho makes a valuable theoretical contribution to African diaspora studies. Tourists seeking 'a shortcut to Africanness' reveal that interpersonal connections and cultural exchange within the African diaspora are as important as the teleological return to Africa."—Christopher Dunn, Tulane University
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