White travel imaginary and media contestations of race

Tori Omega Arthur

Annals of Tourism Research, 2023, vol. 100, issue C

Abstract: Representations of Black travelers are often missing from travel media in favor of white able-bodied cisgender women and men. Lack of representation is a component of the white travel imaginary, a technological and physical as well as an epistemological and ontological convention that marginalizes Black experience in travel media. This study explicates a new theoretical paradigm for analyzing how race and representation function in the media. Employing visual and textual analysis as a method of exploring the white travel imaginary, I examine @historyofblacktravel and @blacktravelalliance, connected Instagram accounts highlighting the global movements of Black travelers. I show how scholars can employ the white travel imaginary framework when examining social media to critically analyze how travel is racially situated.

Keywords: white travel imaginary; social media; race; representation; digital space (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2023.103546

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