Whiteness, weddings, and tourism in the Caribbean [electronic resource] : paradise for sale / Karen Wilkes.
2016
G155.C35
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Title
Whiteness, weddings, and tourism in the Caribbean [electronic resource] : paradise for sale / Karen Wilkes.
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ISBN
9781137503916 (electronic book)
1137503912 (electronic book)
1137503904
9781137503909
1137503912 (electronic book)
1137503904
9781137503909
Publication Details
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
9781137503909
Call Number
G155.C35
Dewey Decimal Classification
338.4/791729
Summary
This book examines myths of the Caribbean as paradise. These myths are used as a backdrop to market destination white weddings. The book is interdisciplinary and uses historical and contemporary visual texts to examine the way in which middle class white womanhood assumes a decorative, privileged, and elevated position within contemporary images of destination weddings in the Caribbean. To facilitate the notion of the Caribbean as paradise, the book argues that this production of luxury is highly dependent on the positioning of blackness as servitude. To this end, tourism marketing appropriates the Caribbean's history of slavery; transforming the region into a site where whiteness can consume black labor as luxury.
Note
This book examines myths of the Caribbean as paradise. These myths are used as a backdrop to market destination white weddings. The book is interdisciplinary and uses historical and contemporary visual texts to examine the way in which middle class white womanhood assumes a decorative, privileged, and elevated position within contemporary images of destination weddings in the Caribbean. To facilitate the notion of the Caribbean as paradise, the book argues that this production of luxury is highly dependent on the positioning of blackness as servitude. To this end, tourism marketing appropriates the Caribbean's history of slavery; transforming the region into a site where whiteness can consume black labor as luxury.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Online resource, title from PDF title page (viewed September 18, 2016).
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