Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America

ISBN-13: 9780367609986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 166 str.

Cathy Rex; Shevaun E. Watson

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: New Directions for Research: Bringing Together Public Memory, Early America, and Tourism Studies. 1. Revisiting the Gateway to Bondage: A Comparative Study of the Landscape Preservation and Touristic Interpretation at Sullivan’s Island with Ellis and Angel Islands.  2. Remembrance and Mourning in the Native Mid-South: Florence Indian Mound Museum’s Past, Present, and Future.  3. Remembering and Forgetting Plantation History in Jamaica: Rose Hall and Greenwood Great House.  4. At the Table or On the Menu at Indiana’s Feast of the Hunters’ Moon.  5. Slavery in the Big Easy: Digital Interventions in the Tourist Landscape of New Orleans.  6. Don’t Mess with (Anglo) Texas: Dominant Cultural Values in Heritage Sites of the Texas Revolution.  7. Bulloch Hall and the Movement Toward a Well-Rounded Interpretation of Antebellum Life in Roswell, Georgia.  8. Rendezvous with History: Grand Portage National Monument and Minnesota’s North Shore.  Afterword: Memory and Heritage in the "Era of Just Redemption".