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Alana Dillette

SDSU
Participates in 3 items

Sessions in which Alana Dillette participates

Monday 21 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | 30 minutes

Living in a Black and White world: The value of reflexivity in social equity researchby Alana Dillette and Stefanie BenjaminThough more than fifty years post segregation, the current political landscape in the U.S. suggests that many Americans are still living in a ‘Black and White’ world. Therefore, when two tourism scholars decided to take on the historically White washed tourism industry – it was not smooth sailing. This work uses the meth...

10:30 AM - 1:00 PM | 2 hours 30 minutes

Tourism RESET will be leading a special track: BI-POC issues in tourism, travel, and mobility. Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BI-POC) have endured racial inequalities, segregation and systemic racism for centuries. Globally, travel and tourism has been overpoweringly White-washed, leaving limited room to highlight the experiences and voices of traditionally marginalized groups, the result lending itself ...

2:15 PM
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour

We are offering time for reflection, processing, and a moment for clarity within a decompression session workshop. These sessions will help folxs make meaning of what they observed and heard in a non-judgmental space. As Probyn (2003) posited, “space informs, limits, and produces subjectivity” and with decompression sessions, conference participants can delineate for themselves the dialogue around race relations and the historical complexities of colonized and White centered narratives. Co...