"To Preserve is to Resist": Threading Black Cultural Heritage from within in Quilombo Tourism. Issue 1 (2nd January 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Guerrón Montero, Carla Maria
• Is Part Of: Souls. Volume 19:Issue 1(2017)
• Page Start: 75
• Page End: 90
• Publication Date: 2017-01-02
• Subjects: African diaspora -- Brazil -- community-based tourism -- heritage -- memory -- quilombos -- resistance; African Americans -- Periodicals; African Americans -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; African Americans -- History -- Periodicals; United States -- Race relations -- Periodicals; 305.896
• DOI: 10.1080/10999949.2017.1268805
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1099-9949

Abstract

Abstract : Quilombos have been a constant force in the history of Brazil, from colonial and imperial times, through independence, the republic legislation, and the Federal Constitution of 1988. During these periods, quilombo portrayal has changed from representations of sites for "fugitives" and "criminals" to locations of resistance par excellence. In this article, I ask how are legitimacy and authenticity experienced within the context of quilombo community-based tourism. I discuss how the quilombolas of Campinho da Independência (Rio de Janeiro state) produce fluid tour narratives that both create and preserve selective aspects of their cultural history and memory as means of resistance, but also as means of interconnectedness and sovereignty.