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White travel imaginary and media contestations of race

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  • Arthur, Tori Omega

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Representations of Black travelers are often missing from travel media in favor of white able-bodied cisgender women and men. Lack of representation is a component of the white travel imaginary, a technological and physical as well as an epistemological and ontological convention that marginalizes Black experience in travel media. This study explicates a new theoretical paradigm for analyzing how race and representation function in the media. Employing visual and textual analysis as a method of exploring the white travel imaginary, I examine @historyofblacktravel and @blacktravelalliance, connected Instagram accounts highlighting the global movements of Black travelers. I show how scholars can employ the white travel imaginary framework when examining social media to critically analyze how travel is racially situated.

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  • Arthur, Tori Omega, 2023. "White travel imaginary and media contestations of race," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 100(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:anture:v:100:y:2023:i:c:s0160738323000191
    DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2023.103546
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