Exploring the many dimensions of what it's like to see the world as a black traveler, from discovering liberation to experiencing healing.

The novelty of African-American roots tourism to Brazil is that to some extent it defies the secondary position occupied by Brazil in the African diaspora, a context marked by the hegemony of U.S.-centric conceptions of blackness. At the same time, roots tourism entails three kinds of inequalities: the disparity between those who have access to travel and those who do not, the belief of many African-American tourists that they can exchange what they view as their "modernity" for the "traditions" of the local black communities with whom they interact during their travels, and the much greater access of African-Americans to the means by which Africa and the diaspora can be represented...

African Americans Studying Abroad. The obstacles, challenges, benefits, and rewards of African Americans studying abroad.