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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Karen Christel Krahulik. Provincetown: From Pilgrim Landing to Gay Resort. (American History and Culture.) New York: New York University Press. 2006. Pp. xi, 274. $29.95.
Karen Christel Krahulik offers a fascinating and lively account of how Provincetown, Massachusetts, became America's most famous gay resort. The book is both a celebration of the community's embrace of freedom and a reminder that Provincetown—despite its vaunted tolerance for sexual nonconformity—faced problems of racism, sexism, and economic exploitation.	1
During the nineteenth century, Yankee residents of Provincetown enjoyed the benefits of a lucrative whaling and fishing industry and exercised political and cultural control of the town. Yankee sea captains imported Portuguese sailors—the beginning of the vital community of Portuguese immigrants who would over the course of the century come to dominate the fishing industry. By the end of the century, declining revenues from fish led Provincetown to search for alternative sources of income. Taking a cue from other seashore communities, residents looked to the growing numbers of vacationing Americans seeking places for their summer holidays. Provincetown capitalized on its history as the first landing site of the Mayflower to fashion a "colonial" tourist destination. Krahulik sees these efforts in part as an attempt by the Yankee population to highlight Provincetown's Yankee past and shore up its position in the face of the growth and influence of the Portuguese community. Tensions between Portuguese and Yankee residents persisted as the former took the service jobs that were essential for a successful summer resort. Portuguese fishing boats became excursion vessels, and Portuguese families opened their homes and shops to arriving vacationers. Despite Yankee efforts to cast Portuguese residents as merely exotic tourist attractions, Portuguese immigrants slowly displaced Yankees both politically and culturally.	. . .

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