Plantation museum staff are chosen for racial authenticity, not impartiality

Evidence

In the sites themselves, the vast majority of docents are elderly white Southern women, selected, no doubt, for their authenticity, rather than for any particular impartiality they might exemplify. And the vast majority of visitors seem to be whites. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1890

Categorization

• QUESTION: What would it take to verify ‘selected for authenticity’ versus other staffing constraints like volunteer demographics or labor availability?
• SEED: Essay angle: the performative whiteness of heritage labor — who gets to embody a historical site and what that signals to visitors.