Dr. Perry Carter, Ph.D.Associate Professor, Texas Tech University.

Dr. Perry Carter, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Texas Tech University.

PERRY CARTER

Research Fellow

Perry Carter, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Geography in the Department of Geosciences at Texas Tech University. Dr. Carter’s research interests include human, social, urban and economic geography. Specific interests include geographies of consumption, travel and tourism, space and its role in the construction of racial identity, geographic methodologies.

Expertise: Plantations, Enslavement & Heritage Tourism, Social, Urban & Economic Geography, Issues of Racial Identity, Environmental Justice, Quantitative Geography / Data Science

Contact: perry.carter@ttu.edu

Selected Publications

Carter, Perry L. (2008).Coloured places and pigmented holidays: "Racialized leisure travel," Tourism Geographies, 10(3): 265-284

Carter, Perry L; Butler, David; Dwyer, Owen. (2011) "Defetishizing the plantation: African Americans in the memorialized South," Historical Geography, 39: 128-146

Carter, Perry; Butler, David L; Alderman, Derek H. (2014) "The house that story built: The place of slavery in plantation museum narratives," The Professional Geographer, 66(4): 547-557

Carter, Perry Labron. (2019) "Looking for something real: Affective encounters Annals of Tourism Research," 76: 200-213