Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean

Download or read book Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean written by Karen Wilkes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.