Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
Souther's New Orleans on Parade is an examination of the role tourism has played in shaping the identity of New Orleans's French Quarter specifically and the city as a whole by extention. The major players in the struggle over tourism include the old time city elite versus the new. more diverse businessmen; the French Quarter preservationists versus the tourism promoters; city residents versus an influx of outsiders; and the white establishment versus a largely black labor pool. Ultimately, this book argues, New Orleans embraced its role as a tourist vacation spot (and, by extension, the idealized version of the past included in the quarter) as a survival mechanism in the face of industrial collapse, the fall of the oil boom, and the rise of urban crime.
Repository Citation
DuBose, Mike S.. "On J. Mark Souther's New Orleans on Parade: Tourism and the Transformation of the Crescent City." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 8, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1–5. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol8/iss2/8