Tour Guides as Creators of Empathy: The Role of Affective Inequality in Marginalizing the Enslaved at Plantation House Museums

Tourist Studies

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-19

  Modlin, E Arnold ^a   Alderman, Derek H ^b   Gentry, Glenn W ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

affect; Destrehan Plantation; docent; historic house; inequality; memory; museum; plantation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960826056     PISSN: 14687976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468797611412007     Document Type: Article

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