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

Mostrar otras versiones (1)

<Div>Looking at competing representations of race in New Orleans tourism, Lynnell L. Thomas shows how declarations of racial harmony mask the city's history of racial inequality, how popular notions of New Orleans as a site of desire are intertwined with competing ideas of the city as a s...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas, Lynnell L., 1971-
Autor Corporativo: Project Muse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Tourism > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Noirs américains > Louisiane > La Nouvelle-Orléans.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
African Americans.
Tourism.
Travel.
New Orleans (La.) > Description and travel.
Louisiana > New Orleans.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "The city I used to come to visit" : heritage tourism and racialized disaster in New Orleans
  • "Life the way it used to be in the Old South" : the construction of black desire in New Orleans's post-civil rights tourism narrative
  • "Urbane, educated, and well-to-do free blacks" : the challenge of a creole world in le Monde Creole French Quarter courtyards tour
  • "Wasn't nothing like that" : New Orleans's black heritage tourism and counternarratives of resistance
  • "Starting all over again" : post-Katrina tourism and the reconstruction of race.

Ejemplares similares