Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America (New Directions in Tourism Analysis)

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Synopsis
This book addresses the interconnected issues of public memory, race, and heritage tourism, exploring the ways in which historical tourism shapes collective understandings of America’s earliest engagements with race.It includes contributions from a diverse group of humanities scholars, including early Americanists, and scholars from communication, English, museum studies, historic preservation, art and architecture, Native American studies, and history. Through eight chapters, the collection offers varied perspectives and original analyses of memory-making and re-making through travel to early American sites, bringing needed attention to the considerable role that tourism plays in producing—and possibly unsettling—racialized memories about America’s past. The book is an interdisciplinary effort that analyses lesser-known sites of historical and racial significance throughout North America and the Caribbean (up to about 1830) to unpack the relationship between leisure travel, processes of collective remembering or forgetting, and the connections of tourist sites to colonialism, slavery, genocide, and oppression.Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America provides a deconstruction of the touristic experience with racism, slavery, and the Indigenous experience in America that will appeal to students and academics in the social sciences and humanities.
Copyright:
2022

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
166 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781000463446
Related ISBNs:
9780367610005, 9781000463392, 9780367609986, 9781003102830
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Cathy Rex and Shevaun E. Watson
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Travel, Business and Finance, Social Studies, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Cathy Rex
Edited by:
Shevaun E. Watson

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