This course will investigate the peculiar yet ubiquitous figure of "the tourist" in a world of uneven mobilities fueled and exacerbated by economic disparity, climate change, technology, border conflict, and racism. Guided by postcolonial and critical race theory as well as environmental and feminist frameworks, we will explore and critique the "tourist gaze" as represented in literature and visual culture. Mapping the influential tropes of early colonial travelogues across time and space, we will examine how geopolitical power and structural inequality continue to shape tourism in the global digital era. Possible authors include Njabulo Ndebele, Saidiya Hartman, Jamaica Kincaid, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Dany Laferrière, Farzana Doctor, and James Baldwin.