Mapping Diaspora

“The questions that Pinho raises about negotiating the disjunctures of diaspora are important contributions to both Brazilian and diaspora studies.”—Hispanic American Historical Review

“Mapping Diaspora is a necessary addition to Black studies and African diaspora literature, but it is also an important book for those interested in travelling within and throughout the African diaspora. . . . [It] reminds readers of the importance of understanding one’s privilege when travelling abroad and, more importantly, that we all have a role to play in shifting the geopolitics of knowledge.”—The Black Scholar

“This highly reflexive, thought-provoking, timely book will be of broad popular and scholarly appeal to readers interested in the transnational workings of racial and cultural identities.”—CHOICE

“An informative look at African American tourism to Bahia, Brazil. . . . [B]oth a work of scholarship and of advocacy.”—Nova Religio

“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