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"The Politics of Race and Sex in Salvador's Tourism Industry," Erica L. Williams

Erica Lorraine Williams is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia.

4/11/2016
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Room 002, Rockefeller Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Conferences, Lectures & Seminars

This lecture draws upon eighteen months of ethnographic research to explore the diverse perspectives of sex tourism in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Williams describes how the cultural and sexual economies of tourism are inextricably linked in Salvador's tourism industry. While studies of sex tourism in other parts of the world have focused exclusively on the sexual and gendered aspects of the industry without considering the significant role that race and culture invariably play, Williams' work considers how the Bahian state goverhment utilizes an eroticized blackness and Afro-Brazilian culture to "sell" Bahia to foreign tourists. Williams' book, Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements (University of Illinois Press, 2013), advances an intersectional, transnational, black feminist aproach to sex tourism that is deeply influenced by feminist anthropology, queer studies, and activist anthropology.  

 

 

 

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