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Rodrigue, Matthew.

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The search for anti-racial exoticism black leisure travel, the Caribbean, and Cold War politics, 1954--1961.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The search for anti-racial exoticism black leisure travel, the Caribbean, and Cold War politics, 1954--1961./
Author:	Rodrigue, Matthew.
Description:	72 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 48-06, page: 3406.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International48-06.
Subject:	History, Black. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=1479033
ISBN:	9781124104911

The search for anti-racial exoticism black leisure travel, the Caribbean, and Cold War politics, 1954--1961.
Rodrigue, Matthew.

The search for anti-racial exoticism black leisure travel, the Caribbean, and Cold War politics, 1954--1961. - 72 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 48-06, page: 3406.

Thesis (M.A.)--Temple University, 2010.

By the mid-1950s leisure travel became both a new arena in the civil rights movement as well as a tactic in that struggle. Middle class African Americans felt their travel (both domestic and international) constituted both a critique of race relations at home and a realization of their rights as citizens. Alongside this development, I argue, was the proliferation of black travel columns and travel ads that simultaneously upheld the Caribbean as a model of racial progressivism while reinforcing its status as an exotic location dedicated to the pleasure of American tourists. By 1960 this ostensibly apolitical movement became politicized when ex-boxer Joe Louis met resistance from the mainstream press after promoting Fidel Castro's Cuba as a black American playground. In this second section I argue that the scandal surrounding Louis' PR campaign was revelatory of white unease regarding the transnational racial/political connections being forged between a selection of African Americans and Castro, thus constituting the story as yet another episode in the entangled development of the Cold War and the civil rights movement.

ISBN: 9781124104911Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017776
History, Black.

The search for anti-racial exoticism black leisure travel, the Caribbean, and Cold War politics, 1954--1961.
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