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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Brown, Sarah. "American Tourists' Narratives of the Caribbean, 1839-1939: A Study of the Experience of Tourism and of Cultural Encounter," American Studies Program, George Washington University, May 1995.
The study examines the experience of American tourists in the Caribbean, as represented in travel books published by tourists between 1839 and World War II. The collection of narratives, viewed within the context of multidisciplinary scholarship, reveal valuable information about the process of tourism, and about the social and political views of the tourists’ culture. Race was an issue, as was the right of dominion by the United States over the Americas. As tourists, Americans enjoyed that which they considered quaint, picturesque, and even primitive. As expansionists, they valued productivity and progress, and would destroy the attractions that brought them to the Caribbean as tourists.
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