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African American
Anna Marie Wells
antebellum
Appalachian mountain
aristocracy
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black
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Charles Lanman
Charleston
Civil War
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Confederate
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Gilded Age
Mammie
marginalizing
Mississippi
myth
Natchez
nineteenth century
North Carolina
nostalgia
Novelties of Southern Scenery
plantation
postbellum
Rebecca Cawood McIntyre
regional identity
Sambo
South Carolina
southernizing
Souvenirs of the Old South
stereotype
Tennessee
tourism
Uncle Tom
Virginia Springs
World War I
Yankee
Product details
- ISBN 9780813054148
- Weight: 328g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2016
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Less than a decade after the conclusion of the Civil War, northern promoters began pushing images of a mythic South to boost tourism. By creating a hierarchical relationship based on region and race in which northerners were always superior, promoters saw tourist dollars begin flowing southward, but this cultural construction was damaging to southerners, particularly African Americans.Rebecca McIntyre focuses on the years between 1870 and 1920, a period framed by the war and the growth of automobile tourism. These years were critical in the creation of the South’s modern identity, and she reveals that tourism images created by northerners for northerners had as much effect on making the South ""southern"" as did the most ardent proponents of the Lost Cause. She also demonstrates how northern tourism contributed to the worsening of race relations in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Rebecca Cawood McIntyre is assistant professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University, USA.
