Abstract
Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race and Historical Memory, by Lynnell L. Thomas, challenges the racial messages embedded within dominant tourism narratives in New Orleans. From tour guides, to websites, to travel brochures, Thomas extracts and analyzes a variety of messages to document how competing representations of race—desire and disaster—are two frames through which New Orleans tourism narratives represent black culture. Thomas leads readers to question the extent to which alternative tourism narratives can be constructed to more justly address constructions of blackness.
Recommended Citation
Schreiber, Casey
(2016)
"Book Review: Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race and Historical Memory by Lynnell L. Thomas,"
Trotter Review: Vol. 23:
Iss.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/trotter_review/vol23/iss1/10
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