The Unfortunate Inner Lives of Scholars of Color in Leisure and Tourism Studies

In this conceptual paper, I tried to articulate that in leisure and tourism studies “we still live a wholly racialized world” (Morrison, 1992). Few scholars cared follow the clues map contours of racial predicament color as way their lives surviving academia. As scholar color, my everlasting quest has always been feel at home without becoming “White”. The dilemmas rejections journey created an omnipresent tension life which shaped content paper. understand study will certainly not set Thames on fire but seek open new avenues discussion break silence. While doing that, philosophy Hegel’s “master/slave dialectic: search for self-consciousness” within Bakhtinian (multiaccentuality meaning) Levinasian (his close equivalence between structuralist anthropology genetics) context equipped with wisdom Stuart Hall, Frantz Fanon, W.E.B. Du Bois, Toni Morrison, Michel Foucault, Karl Marx, Jacques Derrida Amartya Sen.