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'Roots Run Deep Here': The Construction Of Black New Orleans In Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives, Lynnell L. Thomas
'Roots Run Deep Here': The Construction Of Black New Orleans In Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives, Lynnell L. Thomas
American Studies Faculty Publication Series
This article explores the emergent post-Katrina tourism narrative and its ambivalent racialization of the city. Tourism officials are compelled to acknowledge a New Orleans outside the traditional tourist boundaries – primarily black, often poor, and still largely neglected by the city and national governments. On the other hand, tourism promoters do not relinquish (and do not allow tourists to relinquish) the myths of racial exoticism and white supremacist desire for a construction of blacks as artistically talented but socially inferior.
“'Roots Run Deep Here': The Construction Of Black New Orleans In Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives", Lynnell L. Thomas
“'Roots Run Deep Here': The Construction Of Black New Orleans In Post-Katrina Tourism Narratives", Lynnell L. Thomas
Lynnell Thomas
This article explores the emergent post-Katrina tourism narrative and its ambivalent racialization of the city. Tourism officials are compelled to acknowledge a New Orleans outside the traditional tourist boundaries – primarily black, often poor, and still largely neglected by the city and national governments. On the other hand, tourism promoters do not relinquish (and do not allow tourists to relinquish) the myths of racial exoticism and white supremacist desire for a construction of blacks as artistically talented but socially inferior.
“‘The City I Used To...Visit’: Tourist New Orleans And The Racialized Response To Hurricane Katrina”, Lynnell Thomas
“‘The City I Used To...Visit’: Tourist New Orleans And The Racialized Response To Hurricane Katrina”, Lynnell Thomas
Lynnell Thomas
This article explores the connections between New Orleans’s late 20th-century tourism representations and the mainstream media coverage and national images of the city immediately following Hurricane Katrina. It pays particular attention to the ways that race and class are employed in both instances to create and perpetuate a distorted sense of place that ignore the historical and contemporary realities of the city’s African American population.
The Grizzly, September 29, 2005, Ali Wagner, Bart Brooks, Kerri Landis, Megan Helzner, Katie Perkins, Cindy Ritter, Sarah Keck, Adam Longino, Dan Lamson, Salia Zouande, Jeffrey Olimpo, Jaynine Vado, Lynnsey Zweier, Michael Graham, Kate Prahlad, Travis High, Karen Guardiani, Allison Emery, Cecily Macconchie, Christina Fulcher, Ashley Higgins, Sonia N. Gonzalez, Darron Harley, Danielle Langdon, Matthew Pastor, Dave Marcheskie, Jonathan Pometto
The Grizzly, September 29, 2005, Ali Wagner, Bart Brooks, Kerri Landis, Megan Helzner, Katie Perkins, Cindy Ritter, Sarah Keck, Adam Longino, Dan Lamson, Salia Zouande, Jeffrey Olimpo, Jaynine Vado, Lynnsey Zweier, Michael Graham, Kate Prahlad, Travis High, Karen Guardiani, Allison Emery, Cecily Macconchie, Christina Fulcher, Ashley Higgins, Sonia N. Gonzalez, Darron Harley, Danielle Langdon, Matthew Pastor, Dave Marcheskie, Jonathan Pometto
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
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The Grizzly, September 15, 2005, Ali Wagner, Bart Brooks, Tim Smith, Elsa Budzowski, Kate Prahlad, Cecily Macconchie, Jenn Mccann, Sarah Keck, Christina Fulcher, Sonia N. Gonzalez, Darron Harley, Michael Graham, Jonathan Pometto, Danielle Langdon
The Grizzly, September 15, 2005, Ali Wagner, Bart Brooks, Tim Smith, Elsa Budzowski, Kate Prahlad, Cecily Macconchie, Jenn Mccann, Sarah Keck, Christina Fulcher, Sonia N. Gonzalez, Darron Harley, Michael Graham, Jonathan Pometto, Danielle Langdon
Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present
Gas Prices Continue to Rise • Campus and Local Community Begin Relief Efforts • Students Share Study Abroad Experiences • The Deal with the Meal Deal • One of Ursinus' Own Performs Professionally • Watch Out, Employers: You Could be Next! • How Much is Too Much? Your Guide to Avoiding "Portion Distortion" • Excitement Building in Kaleidoscope • Beyond the Condom: Guide to Safe Sex • Opinions: New Price of Driving; Ursinus, U are Worth it • Irony of Work Study • Things They Didn't Teach You at Freshman Orientation • Who Says Division III Players Can't Go Pro?