Desire & disaster in New Orleans : tourism, race, and historical memory /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thomas, Lynnell L., 1971-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Tourism > Louisiana > New Orleans. African Americans > Louisiana > New Orleans. New Orleans (La.) > Description and travel.

Table of Contents:

"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.