Instagramming Diasporic Mobilities: The Black Travel Movement and Differential Spatial Racialization

IF 1.5 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Communication Culture & Critique Pub Date : 2021-01-13 DOI:10.1093/CCC/TCAA033

Charnell Peters

引用次数: 3

Abstract

The 2010s saw the onset of the Black Travel Movement—an influx of travel companies aimed at a rising Black customer base, whose travel habits are redefining a traditionally White industry. This study interrogates how Black travel companies produce representations that create new possibilities for Blackness on a global scale. To that end, this article forwards the concept of differential spatial racialization. Differential spatial racialization builds from the Critical Race Theory (CRT) concept of differential racialization to explicate how race and racial meanings change across spatial contexts. This article undertakes a narrative analysis of the Instagram accounts of two prominent Black travel companies, Travel Noire and Nomadness Travel Tribe. Results reveal how Travel Noire and Nomadness Travel Tribe minimize the presence of differential spatial racialization by drawing on discourses of global Blackness. Simultaneously, their homogenous depictions and curated posts erase and idealize processes of differential spatial racialization in Black travel.

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instagram侨民流动:黑人旅行运动和差异空间种族化

2010年代开始了“黑人旅游运动”(Black Travel movement)——大量旅游公司瞄准了不断壮大的黑人客户群，他们的旅游习惯正在重新定义传统的白人行业。这项研究探讨了黑人旅游公司如何在全球范围内为黑人创造新的可能性。为此，本文提出了差别化空间种族化的概念。差异空间种族化建立在批判种族理论(CRT)差异种族化概念的基础上，以解释种族和种族意义如何在空间语境中变化。本文对两家著名的黑人旅游公司travel Noire和Nomadness travel Tribe的Instagram账号进行了叙事分析。研究结果揭示了《黑色旅行》和《游牧旅行部落》是如何利用全球黑人的话语来最小化差异空间种族化的存在的。同时，他们的同质描述和精心策划的帖子抹去了黑人旅行中不同空间种族化的过程，并将其理想化。

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Communication Culture & Critique COMMUNICATION-

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2.50

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5.90%

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