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Lynnell L. Thomas

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

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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 New Orleans native Lynnell L. Thomas delves into the relationship between tourism, cultural production, and racial politics. She carefully interprets the racial narratives embedded in tourist websites, travel guides, business periodicals, and newspapers; the thoughts of tour guides and owners; and the stories told on bus and walking tours as they wer… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8223-5728-5
  • EAN: 9780822357285
  • Produktnummer: 16219143
  • Verlag: Duke Univ Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
  • Seitenangabe: 272 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.5 cm 340 g
  • Auflage: New
  • Gewicht: 340

Über den Autor


Lynnell L. Thomas is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston.

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