Lynnell Thomas' research interests include New Orleans tourism, African
American history and culture, and Black popular culture. A native of New Orleans, Lynnell
Thomas is part of the post-Katrina diaspora, which informs her teaching and scholarship.
Her research is also concerned with the diverse backgrounds and experiences that
constitute and contest American identity and values. Her most recent scholarship has
examined the distortion of African American history and culture in New Orleans’ tourism
narrative, the negative impact of this narrative on policy decisions following Hurricane
Katrina, and the ways that African Americans and others have attempted to resist and
revise this narrative.

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"People Want to See What Happened": Treme, Televisual Tourism, and the Racial Remapping of Post-Katrina New Orleans, Television and New Media (2012)

Occupying the space between cultural reproduction and theatrical production, the HBO series Treme offers an...

 

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New Orleans Unveiled: Fanon and A Reconceptualization of the Performative, Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge (2007)

This article examines Frantz Fanon's "Algeria Unveiled" as a reconceptualization of J. L. Austin's theory...