Memory, slavery, and plantation museums: the River Road Project

摘要: ABSTRACTHeritage tourism plays an increasingly important yet controversial role in interpreting the emotionally and politically charged memories legacies of African enslavement. Antebellum plantation museums southeastern USA remain relatively underanalyzed by researchers, despite their tradition ignoring minimizing contributions struggles slave community. Yet, this neglect is being challenged somewhat a growing number plantations counter-narrative sites that incorporate slavery into docent-led tours, promotional materials, exhibits, preserved structures. Responding to need for scholarship can ferret out nuances, complexities, conflicts producing consuming heritage at these tourist sites, special issue presents results study four (Laura, Oak Alley, Houmas House, San Francisco) along Louisiana's River Road. The issue's editors contributing authors address central question: what factors, social actors, and...