Folk for Whom? Tourist Guidebooks, Local Color, and the Spiritual Churches of New Orleans.

Compares how members of the spiritual churches in New Orleans, Louisiana, have seen themselves and how tourists have led them to see them, based on information found in tourist guidebooks from the 1930s and the 1990s. Why the perpetuation of the image of the spiritual churches in the guidebooks is necessary; Short history of tourist guidebooks; What the early tourist guidebooks failed to mention.