Description: How South of the Border and Atlantic Beach reflect cultural shifts in a more inclusive South
Brief description: P. Nicole King is associate professor and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and director of the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture. Her work has appeared in the edited collection Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South.
Review Quotes: Pedro was born in a beer depot. Constructed just over a dry-county line, what would become South of the Border flourished with the construction of Interstate 95. But another national project, desegregation, caused a different enclave to wither: Atlantic Beach, a lively refuge for African Americans about seventy miles away. P. Nicole King deserves credit for seeing these as a pair of 'touriscapes' (her perceptive term), and for illuminating them with abundant scholarship laced with appreciation.--Randall A. Wells, author of Along the Waccamaw: A Yankee Discovers a Home by the River