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Title: Automobility, Hospitality, African American Tourism, and Mapping Victor H. Green's Negro Motorist Green Book

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: Victor Green's travel guide stands as one illustration of tools used by African Americans to survive in the contested and disputed landscape of Jim Crow segregation. The Green Book as a symbol of the civil rights movement further represents the discourses and politics of automobility that both limit and empower resistance. The Green Book is an under-utilized source available to historical geographers for researching the numerous barriers to tourism. Racial discrimination is one that is especially under-analyzed. This research advances the field of digital humanities and historical GIS as well as pushing close the epistemological qualitative-quantitative discord over using geographic information systems to support geo-analytic approaches in human geography.

Url: http://thescholarship.ecu.edu/handle/10342/4210

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Authors: Kennedy, Richard, A

Institution: East Carolina University

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Degree: Master of Arts in Geography, GIS Program

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Pages: 112

Data Collections: IPUMS NHGIS

Topics: Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States