Tales from the Haunted South
2015·176 pages
Tiya Miles explores dark tourism in the South, critiquing ghost tours that exploit slavery's painful history.
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Tiya Miles explores dark tourism in the South, critiquing ghost tours that exploit slavery's painful history.
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Tiya Miles is from Ohio, "the heart of it all," though now she spends summers in her husband's native Montana. She is the author of All That She Carried (which won a National Book Award for nonfiction and more), and of three prize-winning works of history on the intersections of African American and Native American experience.
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Romance & sex
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Brief mentions of salacious sexual ties in historical context. Sexual violence against enslaved women.
Violence & gore
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Recurring references to physical abuse and torture of enslaved people.
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Minor mentions of mystical ideas and ghost stories in tours.
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Central focus on racial history, slavery, and cultural memory in the South.
Self-harm / suicide
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Brief reference to historical suicide in dark tourism narratives.
Abuse & suffering
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Frequent focus on slavery, cruelty, and systemic suffering. Sexual violence against enslaved women.
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