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Desire and Disaster in New Orleans : Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory /

Most of the narratives packaged for New Orleans's many tourists cultivate a desire for black culture-jazz, cuisine, dance-while simultaneously targeting black people and their communities as sources and sites of political, social, and natural disaster. In this timely book, the Americanist and N...

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Autor principal: Thomas, Lynnell L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2014]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • One. "The City I Used to Come to Visit"
  • Two. "Life the Way It Used to Be in the Old South"
  • Three. "Urbane, Educated, and Well-To- Do Free Blacks"
  • Four. "Wasn't Nothing Like That"
  • Five. "Starting All Over Again"
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index