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Stokely: A Life, by Peniel E. Joseph

official tourism narratives as grounds to argue “for a more truthful and thoughtful historical assessment, interpretation, and reimagining of New Orleans on the part of cultural institutions, the tourism industry, and public officials” (25). While Thomas’s project is interrogatingNewOrleans tourism specifically, I’m curious how her theoretical framework could serve as a transferable model for other aptly selected global locations. By pushing for the necessary, non-fetishized inclusion of African American representation in the tourism narratives of New Orleans as a force fueling the culture and society itself, Thomas challenges the reader to revise misconceptions of New Orleans’s past as well as to authentically frame the post-Katrina future. This rejection of a post-racial, neoliberal understanding of race and class in New Orleans by questioning the ways blackness is codified and consumed through a dominant legacy of tourism is a refreshing and crucial argument to be made not only in New Orleans, but also with an eye to the global urban tourism industry.