Public Memory, Race, and Heritage Tourism of Early America

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.

List of contents

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".

About the author

Cathy Rex is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She specializes in early American literature and material culture. Her scholarship has appeared in many journals and edited collections; her monograph was published by Ashgate in 2015.
Shevaun E. Watson is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Composition at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She specializes in rhetoric, composition, early American rhetoric, and public memory. She is working on a monograph about heritage tourism, race, and public memory in Charleston, S.C.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Cathy Watson Rex
• Assisted by: Cathy Rex (Editor), Shevaun E. Watson (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2024
• EAN: 9780367610005
• ISBN: 978-0-367-61000-5
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: New Directions in Tourism Analysis
• Subjects: Guides > Sport; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Sociology, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Social and cultural history, History of the Americas, The Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Black & Asian Studies, Slavery and abolition of slavery, HISTORY / African American & Black, Relating to African American / Black American people