Tourism as Mastery: Slavery, Hospitality and the Gift in the Anglophone Caribbean Open Access
Kaplan, Leah (Spring 2026)
Abstract
Tourism as Mastery: Slavery, Hospitality and the Gift in the Anglophone Caribbean,” speaks to the colonial, imperial, and racial violences that undergird the history of travel in Modernity. Tourism as mastery identifies the ways in which the tourist in the Caribbean is the perfection of the modern mobile subject originating with the explorer, the conquistador, the missionary, and the slave master. It critiques the hospitality industry as the reproduction of whiteness, the reproduction of empire, and the reproduction of anti-black imagos. Overall, I argue that Caribbean tourism is the continuous reprisal of the Western subject’s right to freedom, home, family, and nation, and thus another example of the afterlives of slavery, characterized by white self-discovery through the subjugation of blackness.
Table of Contents
Introduction: …………………………………………………………………………1-29
Chapter 1: Tourism as the Reproduction of Whiteness………………………………30-74
Chapter 2: Tourism as Mastery ………………………………………………………75-122
Chapter 3: Tourism, A Gift Without End……………………………………………123-170
Coda:………………………………………………………………………….............171-184
Epilogue:…………………………………………………………………………….189-195
Bibliography:…………………………………………………………………………196-203
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