Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage
Autor Ann E Denkleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mar 2010
A close look at one town helps to debunk the ideas and ideologies of the existence of a monolithic "South", since the term could mean Mississippi, North Carolina, or somewhere-in-between. Luray and the Shenandoah Valley, with their distinctive geographical, economical, architectural, and cultural history can boast of its own discrete "southern" identity.
The book reveals how African-American texts and history reveal contributions to the town of Luray and the Shenandoah Valley region. The book studies the "Ol' Slave Auction Block", a controversial public history site that subverts the white, hegemonic heritage of the town. Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage is groundbreaking in its study of African-American tourism.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780739119921
ISBN-10: 0739119923
Pagini: 138
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0739119923
Pagini: 138
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Creating the Past in Luray
Chapter 3 "...But Slavery Cured us of that Weakness": The Search for the "Private" Public History of African Americans in Luray
Chapter 4 Subverting Heritage and Memory: Luray's "Ol' Slave Auction Block"
Chapter 5 Tourism and Battles for Cultural Identity
Chapter 6 Recapturing Identity: The "Life on the Mountain" Exhibition at Shenandoah National Park
Chapter 7 Epilogue-Interpreting for the Future
Chapter 2 Creating the Past in Luray
Chapter 3 "...But Slavery Cured us of that Weakness": The Search for the "Private" Public History of African Americans in Luray
Chapter 4 Subverting Heritage and Memory: Luray's "Ol' Slave Auction Block"
Chapter 5 Tourism and Battles for Cultural Identity
Chapter 6 Recapturing Identity: The "Life on the Mountain" Exhibition at Shenandoah National Park
Chapter 7 Epilogue-Interpreting for the Future
Recenzii
Ann Denkler lifts the veil off of one of our most treasured tourist areas to reveal the 'real people' living in Luray, Virginia. Her contributions to discussions of heritage tourism and oral history not only fill a void in our historical knowledge, but also unveil the long reach of segregation. Sustaining Identity shows us what we have been missing by not deeply interrogating the hidden terrain of the tourist destinations we often visit and love.
This book has an important and laudable thesis. Denkler makes the correct arguments and seems to draw the correct conclusion.
Denkler argues passionately for writing black history into Luray's displays of public history.
Succinct, clearly written study....Denkler has provided a highly readable study that raises important challenges....Few works on these topics have so insightfully unpacked views of the past from both sides of the color line. Her work is a monument to the value of interviews in enriching research in published sources and the interpretation of cultural landscapes.
The body of critically informed interdisciplinary work that engages with African Americans as cultural and heritage agents of tourism is relatively non-existent in this burgeoning field. Denkler's Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage fills a significant void in the literature on race and travel. This book provides an engaging, thought provoking, and well-researched historical account of ways in which African Americans maneuvered through these designated touristic spaces framed by the backdrop of racial segregation across the American South. The book reveals how travel became yet another system of control that told African American tourists they could only visit, eat, and stay in certain places. The African American tourism experience was separate but not equal, experienced in more private settings and one that, to this day, remains un-documented in the mainstream tourism scholarship that is oblivious to racial context.
This book has an important and laudable thesis. Denkler makes the correct arguments and seems to draw the correct conclusion.
Denkler argues passionately for writing black history into Luray's displays of public history.
Succinct, clearly written study....Denkler has provided a highly readable study that raises important challenges....Few works on these topics have so insightfully unpacked views of the past from both sides of the color line. Her work is a monument to the value of interviews in enriching research in published sources and the interpretation of cultural landscapes.
The body of critically informed interdisciplinary work that engages with African Americans as cultural and heritage agents of tourism is relatively non-existent in this burgeoning field. Denkler's Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage fills a significant void in the literature on race and travel. This book provides an engaging, thought provoking, and well-researched historical account of ways in which African Americans maneuvered through these designated touristic spaces framed by the backdrop of racial segregation across the American South. The book reveals how travel became yet another system of control that told African American tourists they could only visit, eat, and stay in certain places. The African American tourism experience was separate but not equal, experienced in more private settings and one that, to this day, remains un-documented in the mainstream tourism scholarship that is oblivious to racial context.