Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/337830 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Citation: 
[Journal:] Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights [ISSN:] 2666-9579 [Volume:] 6 [Issue:] 1 [Article No.:] 100173 [Year:] 2025 [Pages:] 1-9
Publisher: 
Elsevier, Amsterdam
Abstract: 
This article examines Black American women's roots travel throughout the African diaspora between 2000 and 2023. By analyzing interviews with travelers alongside roots travel memoirs, this study shows how such travel responds to historical dislocation and U.S. inequities. The trips are characterized by an expansive quest for felt knowledge, transhistorical connection, familiar sights, and belonging. For Black American women, roots travel has ambiguous results. The trips can facilitate pleasurable affects and fleeting connections. At the same time, such travel rarely results in conclusive findings about one's heritage. As a result, travelers embrace and create small spaces of belonging, adopt the identity of permanent traveler, or find power in occupying the margins.
Subjects: 
African diaspora
Black travel movement
Heritage
Roots
Women's travel
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Document Type: 
Article

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