Destination Dixie : Tourism and Southern History.

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Cox, Karen L [Author]

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computer

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online resource

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9780813042589
9780813043494

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G155 .D478 2012

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Subject: Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to ""See Rock City"" or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been part of how the South attracts visitors--and defines itself--yet such sites are often understudied in the scholarly literature. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the narrative of southern history told at these sites is often complicated by race, influenced by local politics, and shaped by competing memories. Included are essays on the meanin.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	URL	Status	Date due	Barcode
Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD)	G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE	Non-fiction	G155.6 C67 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Link to resource	Available		ocn830516252

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: People and Places; 1 Persistence of Fiction: One Hundred Years of Tom Sawyer at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home; 2 From "Lawrence County Negro" to National Hero: The Commemoration of Jesse Owens in Alabama; 3 Saving "The Dump": Race and the Restoration of the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta; 4 "A Tradition-Conscious Cotton City": (East) Tupelo, Mississippi, Birthplace of Elvis Presley; Part Two: Race & Slavery; 5 "History as Tourist Bait": Inventing Somerset Place State Historic Site, 1939-1969.

6 "Is It Okay to Talk about Slaves?" Segregating the Past in Historic Charleston7 Selling the Civil Rights Movement through Black Political Empowerment in Selma, Alabama; Part Three: War & Remembrance; 8 "Challenging the Interest and Reverence of all Patriotic Americans": Preservation and the Yorktown National Battlefield; 9 Calhoun County, Alabama: Confederate Iron Furnaces and the Remaking of History; 10 A Monument to Many Souths: Tourists Experience Southern Distinctiveness at Stone Mountain; Part Four: Landscape and Memory.

11 Dead but Delightful: Tourism and Memory in New Orleans Cemeteries12 Tourism, Landscape, and History in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park; 13 Authenticity for Sale: The Everglades, Seminole Indians, and the Construction of a Pay-Per-View Culture; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.

Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to ""See Rock City"" or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been part of how the South attracts visitors--and defines itself--yet such sites are often understudied in the scholarly literature. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the narrative of southern history told at these sites is often complicated by race, influenced by local politics, and shaped by competing memories. Included are essays on the meanin.

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