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Lynnell L. Thomas is an associate professor of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Thomas received her doctorate from the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University. She is the author of Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory (Duke University Press, 2014). Her scholarship has been published in the journals American Quarterly, The Black Scholar, Journal of African American History, Journal of Tourism History, Performance Research, Television and New Media, and in the edited volumes HBO's Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis: The Mediated Rebirth of New Orleans (Eds. Dominique Gendrin, Catherine Dessinges, and Shearon Roberts, Lexington Press, 2017),In the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions (Ed. Clyde Woods Johns Hopkins Press, 2010) and Seeking Higher Ground: The Race, Public Policy, and Hurricane Katrina Reader (Eds. Manning Marable and Kristen Clarke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Her current project, with co-author Elizabeth Steeby, is a social justice tour guide “A People’s Guide to New Orleans.”
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Discussion: tourism and race
Chio, J., Gill, T., Gonzalez, V. V., Harp, S. L., McDonald, K., Rosenbaum, A. T., Rugh, S. S. & Thomas, L. L., May 3 2020, In: Journal of Tourism History. 12, 2, p. 173-197 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Maroon colonies and New Orleans neutral grounds: from a protosuburban past to a postsuburban future
Thomas, L. L., Jan 2 2020, In: Urban Geography. 41, 1, p. 21-26 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Civil rights gone wrong: Racial nostalgia, historical memory, and the boston busing crisis in contemporary children's literature
Thomas, L. L., Mar 2017, In: Journal of Urban History. 43, 2, p. 256-272 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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New orleans revisited: Notes of a native daughter
Thomas, L. L., Oct 1 2015, In: Black Scholar. 45, 3, p. 3-9 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Guy-Sheftall, Beverly (b. 1946)
Thomas, L., Jan 1 2014, Women’s Rights in the United States [4 volumes]: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Issues, Events, and People [4 volumes]. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., p. Vol3:128-Vol3:129Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter