Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Desire and disaster in New Orleans : tourism, race, and historical memory
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Lynnell L. Thomas
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014
- Physical Details
-
- xii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0822376350, 9780822357148, 0822357143, 9780822376354, 0822357283, 9780822357285
- OCLC
- ocn871186931, ocn886114899
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "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