Main research areas: leisure behavior (tourism and public space), social justice, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy. While his sub-research areas: racial identity, social inequity, violence and deviancy, governmentality and policy analysis, cr
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Main research areas: leisure behavior (tourism and public space), social justice, cultural studies, and critical pedagogy. While his sub-research areas: racial identity, social inequity, violence and deviancy, governmentality and policy analysis, critical historical analysis, media and narrative analysis, and visual methodology. His work on analyzing lynching photography for examples of violence as a form of leisure has been published in a special issue of Policy Futures in Education, American Behavioral Scientist, and in the collaborative release of Globalizing Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Interventions in Theory, Methods, and Policy. Additional work on perceived notions of racial identity in community recreation centers has been published in Journal of Parks and Recreation Administration, the complexities of visitation to Ghanaian Slave Castles in Annals of Tourism Research, a critique of Whiteness in the Journal of Leisure Research, and alternative therapeutic treatments of veterans with PTSD in the Therapeutic Recreation Journal. He has also presented at conferences within the United States, Canada, Britain, and Denmark. His research is strongly centered on critiquing society for the issues that are prevalent and impacting the quality of life and social well-being of people. While in his spare time he has enjoyed DJing as an artform, spinning house, hip hop, reggae, and electronic music for over twenty-five years.
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