Desire and disaster in New Orleans
Subtitle: tourism, race, and historical memory
By: Lynnell L. Thomas
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780822357148; 9780822357285
Subjects: Tourism; African Americans; Description and travel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "The city I used to come to visit" : heritage tourism and racialized disaster in New Orleans; title: "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; title: "Urbane, educated, and well-to-do free blacks" : the challenge of a creole world in le Monde Creole French Quarter courtyards tour; title: "Wasn't nothing like that" : New Orleans's black heritage tourism and counternarratives of resistance; title: "Starting all over again" : post-Katrina tourism and the reconstruction of race.