Desire and disaster in New Orleans : tourism, race, and historical memory / Lynnell L. Thomas.
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Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2014.
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Physical Description: | xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Format: | Book |
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.