Desire and disaster in New Orleans : tourism, race, and historical memory / Lynnell L. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Lynnell L., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Tourism.

African Americans--Louisiana--New Orleans.

African Americans.

New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel.

New Orleans (La.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 source of disaster, and how African American tour guides, tour owners, and tourist industry officials have used their own black heritage tours and tourism-focused businesses to challenge exclusionary tourist representations.

Contents:

"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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822357285

0822357283

9780822376354

0822376350

OCLC:

1139360002