Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Professor Rasul Mowatt presents a photo essay that will navigate a discussion through Roof’s manifesto, website, social media accounts, and testimonials. The aim of the discussion is to place Roof’s activities into dialogue with the tourism literature, and by doing so, proffer an indicting ideological critique on both that literature, cultural heritage and memorialization as a concept and mission in society.
Roof immersed himself in the sites and history of Black atrocity and instead of becoming enlightened, the experience only deepened his already strident position. Nine Black parishioners lost their life to Roof in June 2015, and a $75 million International African American Museum in Charleston opened in June 2023.
Image by Kellyjeanne9 - Own work Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Charleston South Carolina. CC BY-SA 4.0 Created: 21 June 2015
This event is part of the Events, Tourism and Hospitality at Leeds Beckett University online research seminar series. These are free to attend and are recorded for later access.
Rasul A. Mowatt, PhD – is the Department Head and Professor of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management in the College of Natural Resources and Affiliate Professor in Sociology + Anthropology at North Carolina State University. Primary areas of research include, Geographies of Race, Geographies of Violence/Threat, The Animation of Public Space, and Critical Leisure Studies. Relevant publications are 2021’s The Geographies of Threat and the Production of Violence: The City and the State Between Us and 2025’s The City of Hip-Hop: New York City, The Bronx, and a Peace Meeting.
