America’s Horror Stories - Kevin Revier, Favian Alejandro Martín

America’s Horror Stories

U.S. History Through Dark Tourism
Buch | Softcover
152 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-50292-2 (ISBN)
46,10 inkl. MwSt
America’s Horror Stories: U.S. History Through Dark Tourism conducts a ghost tour(ist) methodology to explore how slavery and racism are represented in dark tourism via ghost tours.

The authors travel to key sites of racist U.S. history, including Salem, Massachusetts, where a witch panic was sparked by accusations of witchcraft by Tituba, an enslaved woman practicing Voodoo; New Orleans, Louisiana, which hosts the largest slave trade market and Myrtles Plantation in Francisville, Louisiana; and to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where the bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place, marking a pivotal moment to end slavery in the nation - but where Confederate ghosts are said to continue roaming the town and battlefield. Acting as research ghost hunters/tourists, the authors go on walking and bus tours, visit historical monuments, stay at haunted hotels, ponder objects in haunted museums, and do some ghost hunting of their own. They find that the ghosts conjured by tour guides - ghosts of confederate soldiers, American citizens, and enslaved people - tend to whitewash, sensationalize, and commercialize the horrors of U.S. history, including slavery, racism, and colonialism. This is not to discount dark tourism entirely; rather, to recommend a ghost tour(ist) pedagogy that critically considers social issues - and structural forms of inequality - that haunt us today.

America’s Horror Stories will be of great interest to students and scholars researching and taking critical criminology and cultural criminology courses, specifically on crime, media and culture.

Kevin Revier is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology/Anthropology Department at SUNY Cortland, USA. Favian Alejandro Martín is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Arcadia University, USA.

Introduction. Ghosting Dark Tourism 1. Summoned to Salem 2. Soul Searching in New Orleans 3. Escape from the Myrtles Plantation 4. Conjuring the Confederacy. Conclusion. Toward a Critical Ghost Tourism

Erscheint lt. Verlag 31.12.2024
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Crime, Culture and Media
Zusatzinfo 12 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 1-032-50292-4 / 1032502924
ISBN-13 978-1-032-50292-2 / 9781032502922
Zustand Neuware
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