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Katrina Tourism and a Tale of Two Cities: Visualizing Race and Class in New Orleans
Ist Teil von
American quarterly, 2009-09, Vol.61 (3), p.723-747
Ort / Verlag
College Park: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2009
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Project MUSE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Before Katrina, the reputation of New Orleans as a permissive "party town" was not unrelated to its status as a majority-black city, and visitors have for decades been invited to immerse themselves in the supposedly "exotic" space of ethnic tourism.1 Ironically though, few of the mostly white tourists who visit realize that the apparently edgy experience of Bourbon Street is a show put on by tourist industry workers, most of whom vacate the Quarter at night to return to homes that are in general located on the "wrong" side of Rampart Street. [...] Katrina tourism-which almost masquerades as a species of "eco-tourism"-may be the harbinger of a new and deeper kind of disconnect between the two parallel cities that reside in New Orleans.