Stephen Small is professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is 20 Questions and Answers on Black Europe. He is coauthor of Representations of Slavery: Race and Ideology in Southern Plantation Museums and coeditor of Global Mixed Race, New Perspectives on Slavery and Colonialism in the Caribbean, and Black Europe and the African Diaspora.
Readers interested in how the tourism industry and public memory of
the Civil War have developed will find In the Shadows of the Big
House worth reading. . . . This is an area ripe for study--in a
moment when there seems to be increasing opportunity for academic
and public historians to work together to advance popular
understanding of history. This well-written and thoughtful book is
an excellent start.--Cecily Nelson Zander "Emerging Civil War"
In the Shadows of the Big House: Twenty-First-Century Antebellum
Slave Cabins and Heritage Tourism in Louisiana is a fine
contribution to the literature on plantation museums and tourism,
pushing forward questions about more wholly representing Black
stories and experiences in the pre- and post-Civil War US
South.--Katrina Stack "The Public Historian"
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