Sun, Fun & Slavery: Hiow the South Became the North's Playground

• Nelson Ross Laguna
• Exile Press (Ottawa), 2009
• Paperback, 81 pages

Most of us never stop to think about the footprints we leave after we have left the areas we claim to explore. Our attempts at helping the global south with tourist dollars is another attempt to have white man's privilege save the poor from becoming poorer, all the while reinforcing racist stereotypes and the histories of slavery on a continuing path of imperialism. In our attempts to invent our own little paradise in someone else's backyard, we have created a system that bears a striking resemblance to the one we were determined to destroy. Sun, Fun & Slavery is a short exploration of this phenomenon, with a focus on the intersection between modern-day tourism and terrorism.