PINHO DISCUSSESS AFRICAN-AMERICAN TOURISM IN BRAZIL (867 hits)
NATIONAL/WORLD RELATED NEWS March 26, 2016 Lewisburg, PA
Social scientist Patricia de Santana Pinho will give discussion and talk regarding tourism of African American Roots touring in Brazil. The Forum wiill be held at the Elaine Langone Center at Bucknell University on April 05, 2012 @ 7 p.m. Pinho will speak and highlight on the requests of tourists with Afro-Brazalian roots requesting that tourist guides be Black individuals and is lobbying for Black hotel employees in the mangerial front desk positions. Pinho sited that most of these positions are held by whites, but that since the lobbying has began more considerarion to filling and hiring more Blacks in those positions have been given a new evaluation for those visiting African-American tourists and relations. The Social Scientist is a native of Brazil and a professor of Social Sciences in the the depart of Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino studies at SUNY Albany. Pinho's book Mama Africa, Reinventing Blackness in Bahia traces ways in which Africa has been imagined and reinvent by Afro-Bahian cultural groups. While visiting Bucknell, the Social Scientist will speak on ways to improve socialism in Brazil and thus reflecting a world connection to improve socialism among cultures and African-Americans world wide.
The series of forums is held in recognition of the United Nations declaration of 2011 as the Internation Year of People of African Descent and is sponsored by the Provost's Office, the Center for Study of Race, Ethinicity and Gender, the Office of the President, the departments of sociology and antropology political scien, and economics, and the University Leadership Committee.
