Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean: Paradise for Sale - Hardcover

by Karen Wilkes (Author)

Introduction
Chapter 1 Using Intersectionality to Challenge Visual Myths of Paradise Chapter 2 White Masculine Voices and their Construction of theDark-skinned Woman as Sexual Primitive
Chapter 3 Procuring White Femininity in the Colonies
Chapter 4 Resurrecting Colonialism: Tourism in Jamaica during the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 5 The Postfeminist Bride and the Neoliberal White Wedding inPostcolonial Jamaica
Chapter 6 Feted and Pampered Whiteness in a (Post)colonial Paradise
Conclusion

Back Jacket

This book examines myths of the Caribbean as paradise. These myths are used as a backdrop to market destination white weddings. The book is interdisciplinary and uses historical and contemporary visual texts to examine the way in which middle class white womanhood assumes a decorative, privileged, and elevated position within contemporary images of destination weddings in the Caribbean. To facilitate the notion of the Caribbean as paradise, the book argues that this production of luxury is highly dependent on the positioning of blackness as servitude. To this end, tourism marketing appropriates the Caribbean's history of slavery; transforming the region into a site where whiteness can consume black labor as luxury.

Author Biography

Karen Wilkes is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University, UK. Her book chapter, From the Landscape to the White Female Body, was published in the edited collection Mediating the Tourist Experience (2013). Her journal article, Colluding with Neoliberalism, was published in Feminist Review in July 2015.