<i>The Green Book:</i>“Safe Spaces” from Place to Place

Mitchell, Jerry T.; Collins, Larianne

doi:10.1080/19338341.2013.854259

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“…Resistance to white supremacy was provided by a strategic reading of the racial boundaries of destinations, the advice of other travellers, assistance from black tourism operators and perhaps most significantly from the publication of special guide books to safe places. The most significant was The Green Book (Alderman and Inwood, 2014;Mitchell and Collins, 2014) or more precisely The Negro Motorist Green Book. This guide was published annually from 1936 to 1965 by Victor Green, a New York postal employee, as a travel directory which was dedicated to the needs of middle-class African Americans who could take advantage of automobilities to visit friends and relatives in distant places as well on occasion to frequent the segregated leisure resorts established for black travellers (Alderman and Inwood, 2014; Mitchell and Collins, 2014).…”

Section: Jim Crow and Racialized Landscapes Of Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Racialized Landscapes of Tourism: From Jim Crow USA to Apartheid South Africa

Rogerson

2020

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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AbstractTourism studies, including by geographers, give only minor attention to historically-informed research. This article contributes to the limited scholarship on tourism development in South Africa occurring during the turbulent years of apartheid (1948 to 1994). It examines the building of racialized landscapes of tourism with separate (but unequal) facilities for ‘non-Whites’ as compared to Whites. The methodological approach is archival research. Applying a range of archival sources tourism linked to the expanded mobilities of South Africa's ‘non-White’ communities, namely of African, Coloureds (mixed race) and Asians (Indians) is investigated. Under apartheid the growth of ‘non-White’ tourism generated several policy challenges in relation to national government's commitments towards racial segregation. Arguably, the segregated tourism spaces created for ‘non-Whites’ under apartheid exhibit certain parallels with those that emerged in the USA during the Jim Crow era.

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Section: Jim Crow and Racialized Landscapes Of Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%