Racial Discrimination and African Americans’ Travel Behavior

Abstract

This study investigated African Americans' travel behavior using Bourdieu's concept of habitus. In-depth and face-to-face interviewees were conducted with 13 middle-class African Americans. Vignette technique was used during the interviews. The study identified four salient themes: (1) racial discrimination during travel, (2) fear of racism, (3) storytelling and safety instructions: social reproduction of the fear of racism, and (4) race-related travel choices. The findings showed that informants' travel behavior was linked to an acute fear of racism. They affirmed that African Americans' travel patterns need to be conceived as a defensive mechanism against potential racial discrimination. Implications for research methods and tourism management are discussed.

An agent‐based model of tourism destinations choice

“…(Nuraeni, Arru, & Novani, ) In economic terms, this aspect reveals that one important variable a tourist considers when choosing a destination is the typology of tourists with whom he or she will share the destination. There are many other examples where factors such as social status (Pappas, ), ethnicity (Lee & Scott, ), relationship status, and other characteristics (Mariani, Buhalis, Longhi, & Vitouladiti, ) play a role in the tourism destination decision‐making process. The variables involved when selecting a tourism destination are valuable information for the tourism industry and policy makers, allowing a better targeting of goods and services.…”

Grounded Theory: A Methodological Approach Congruent with Tourism Research

“…Scott, 2017), a teoria fundamentada em dados poderia ser utilizada para a elaboração de uma teoria substantiva sobre as formas de discriminação no uso de aplicativos de hospedagem compartilhada. Por meio da teoria fundamentada pode-se descobrir as categorias de discriminação, suas condições e formas de enfrentamento.Apesar de vislumbrarmos novas descobertas por meio da Grounded Theory, não podemos deixar de notar que, nos artigos apontados neste trabalho, talvez em função das peculiaridades e Neste sentido, citam-se como exemplos, a análise de material documental, tais como as revisões sobre a hospedagem elaboradas por hóspedes da plataforma AirBnb(Sthapit & Björk, 2019) ou a análise de material bibliográfico sobre destinos inteligentes visando a elaboração de uma teoria substantiva acerca da sustentabilidade destes destinos(Shafiee et al, 2019).…”

The racialized and violent biopolitics of mobility in the USA: an agenda for tourism geographies

“…Yet research, news accounts, and personal testimony over social media (Benjamin & Dillette, 2017) suggest that many modern black travelers remain apprehensive and fearful of racism even as they exert greater, positive agency over their own tourism patterns. This fear of racism on the road is a product of stories of mistreatment handed down across generations, but there are certainly ongoing instances of racism (Lee & Scott, 2017). Indeed, for the past four years, I have participated in a multi-university project examining how the managers of contemporary southern heritage tourism sites, specifically plantation museums, reinforce an exclusive sense of place and time that forgets the history of slavery and black civil rights to provide romanticized and comforting images to white visitors.…”