Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean : Paradise for Sale / by Karen Wilkes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilkes, Karen, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture--Study and teaching.

Culture.

Sports--Sociological aspects.

Sports.

Cultural Studies.

Sport Sociology.

Local Subjects:

Cultural Studies.

Sport Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Summary:

This book examines myths of the Caribbean as paradise. These myths are used as a backdrop to market destination white weddings. The book is interdisciplinary and uses historical and contemporary visual texts to examine the way in which middle class white womanhood assumes a decorative, privileged, and elevated position within contemporary images of destination weddings in the Caribbean. To facilitate the notion of the Caribbean as paradise, the book argues that this production of luxury is highly dependent on the positioning of blackness as servitude. To this end, tourism marketing appropriates the Caribbean’s history of slavery; transforming the region into a site where whiteness can consume black labor as luxury.

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1 Using Intersectionality to Challenge Visual Myths of Paradise

Chapter 2 White Masculine Voices and their Construction of the Dark-skinned Woman as Sexual Primitive

Chapter 3 Procuring White Femininity in the Colonies

Chapter 4 Resurrecting Colonialism: Tourism in Jamaica during the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 5 The Postfeminist Bride and the Neoliberal White Wedding in Postcolonial Jamaica

Chapter 6 Feted and Pampered Whiteness in a (Post)colonial Paradise

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137503916

1137503912