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Francis, Theodore Stanhope, II.

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Fantasy island: Race, colonial politics, and the desegregation of tourism in the British colony of Bermuda, 1880-1961.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Fantasy island: Race, colonial politics, and the desegregation of tourism in the British colony of Bermuda, 1880-1961./
作者:	Francis, Theodore Stanhope, II.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
面頁冊數:	484 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02A(E).
標題:	Caribbean studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3725470
ISBN:	9781339097732

Fantasy island: Race, colonial politics, and the desegregation of tourism in the British colony of Bermuda, 1880-1961.
Francis, Theodore Stanhope, II.

Fantasy island: Race, colonial politics, and the desegregation of tourism in the British colony of Bermuda, 1880-1961. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 484 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2015.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

This dissertation investigates the ways in which tourism influenced the lives of black islanders in Bermuda, from the nineteenth century origins of tourism, through the industry's rise to economic and political prominence in the twentieth century and culminating with the desegregation of tourism in the civil rights era. It argues that blacks in Bermuda were exploited by the segregated tourist industry, however they also utilized tourism in ways which were advantageous for themselves, developing a unique form of African Diaspora tourism (Black Tourism) as well as contesting the barriers of segregation in tourism and the public sphere. It also shows that the struggle to desegregate Bermuda's tourist and public spaces was linked to Black Tourism. However, the form of desegregation that occurred in Bermuda by 1961 was problematic because it did not fully eradicate the color bar and still enabled the white ruling class to maintain other forms of social control such as the restricted franchise together with its political dominance in the colonial government.

ISBN: 9781339097732Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122768
Caribbean studies.

Fantasy island: Race, colonial politics, and the desegregation of tourism in the British colony of Bermuda, 1880-1961.
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520 $a This dissertation therefore reveals many facets of tourism viewing it through the eyes of various historical actors who saw it as: a commercial enterprise, a space of certain types of leisure, a political entity, a vehicle for displaying class status, a means of 'progress', an instrument of racial discrimination, and even a battleground for citizenship. In arguing for the significance of blacks in the development and transformation of tourism in Bermuda, this dissertation engages historical topics and concepts such as, race, post-emancipation societies, colonialism, African Diaspora, and civil rights. This dissertation is organized into seven chapters which investigate the origins and influence of tourism over a Caribbean community, together with the subsequent responses of this community towards tourism during its transition from the post-emancipation era to the civil rights period of the 1950s and early 1960s. The central research question is: "how did black Bermudians negotiate the limitations and opportunities created by the tourist industry, and what tangible changes did their efforts produce within tourism and their colonial society?"
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