Southern hospitality and the politics of African American belonging: an analysis of North Carolina tourism brochure photographs

Alderman, Derek H.; Modlin, E. Arnold

doi:10.1080/08873631.2012.745978

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“…In the U.S. south, Southern Hospitality is a major part of the region’s identity and culture. However, within the “politics of belonging,” African-Americans were extended a highly segregated and unequal form of southern hospitality that did not allow them access to various accommodations during Jim Crow era and beyond (Alderman and Modlin 2013). Thus, the legacy and memory of these injustices are still felt today at various travel destinations that evoke hostility and fear:“Vaca’s off to a pleasant start .…”

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Tweeting the Black Travel Experience: Social Media Counternarrative Stories as Innovative Insight on #TravelingWhileBlack

Dillette

Benjamin

Carpenter

2018

Journal of Travel Research

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African-Americans in the United States have long since been confronted with harassment and discrimination while traveling because of segregated lodging, restaurants, and other leisure activities. However, African-Americans/Blacks are one of the fastest-growing tourist groups. This work builds on previous research on the Black travel experience analyzing over 300 tweets using the trending hashtag #TravelingWhileBlack through a critical race theory lens. By analyzing how Black tourists are traveling, this study reveals how experiential knowledge of Black travelers can contribute to the learning environment of the tourism industry. Three emergent themes were identified: (1) occurrences of racism, (2) awareness of being Black while traveling, and (3) meaningful experiences traveling while Black, suggesting that experiential knowledge of travelers of color brings different perspectives, which will, it is hoped, move toward eliminating all forms of subordination and create a more just society.

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“…Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped to alleviate discrimination in public spaces, Black travelers still felt apprehensive to travel to these spaces (Alderman and Modlin 2013). Additionally, the history of U.S. racial brutality also caused international Black tourists to feel apprehensive to visit the United States.…”

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Tweeting the Black Travel Experience: Social Media Counternarrative Stories as Innovative Insight on #TravelingWhileBlack

Dillette

Benjamin

Carpenter

2018

Journal of Travel Research

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“…The contemporary heritage tourism industry in the United States consists of sites of historical and continuing racial and ethnic exclusion but also places of minority inclusion and expression. Arguably, no other region illustrates these complexities and contradictions more than the southeastern United States, where the political economy of tourism and hospitality is particularly racialized (Alderman and Modlin 2013). It is a region in which the Civil War battle sites and antebellum plantation house museums still have great iconic power, even as many of them continue to romanticize slave life or fail to mention it altogether.…”

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Heritage Site Visitation and Attitudes toward African American Heritage Preservation

Benjamin

Kline

Alderman

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Journal of Travel Research

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Understanding disparities in visitation rates to heritage sites and patterns in public support for preservation and remembrance of African American heritage could greatly inform decision-making and management philosophies of park/historic site operators, preservationists, and other entrepreneurs. Informed by critical theory, this study examined heritage site visitation and attitudes toward remembrance and preservation of African American heritage among North Carolina (NC) residents. Telephone interviews were completed by 843 residents investigating their heritage site visitation patterns and support for African American heritage. The results suggest that race, age, education, income, frequency of travel, and voting record impact variation in heritage site visitation among NC residents while race, age, education, the presence of retirees or children in the household, voting record, and identification as a Southerner influenced attitudes toward African American preservation. This study contributes to the critical analysis of how patterns in heritage site visitation and public support of preservation perpetuate racialization of the travel experience.

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“…There is a lengthy history of tourism and hospitality being a site for racialization within the United States. African-American marginalization, if not outright exclusion, was foundational to the modern, white-dominated American travel industry (Alderman & Modlin, 2013). Yet, the NAACP advisory also speaks of tourism's potential as a tool of resistance and the capacity of social actors and groups to challenge these historical and continuing racial inequalities, holding them up to the public as illegitimate if not shameful.…”

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Southern hospitality and the politics of African American belonging: an analysis of North Carolina tourism brochure photographs

Cited by 35 publications

References 57 publications

Tweeting the Black Travel Experience: Social Media Counternarrative Stories as Innovative Insight on #TravelingWhileBlack

Tweeting the Black Travel Experience: Social Media Counternarrative Stories as Innovative Insight on #TravelingWhileBlack

Heritage Site Visitation and Attitudes toward African American Heritage Preservation

The racialized and violent biopolitics of mobility in the USA: an agenda for tourism geographies

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