{"id":31805,"date":"2014-02-12T08:58:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T08:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31805"},"modified":"2017-03-31T18:06:57","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:06:57","slug":"sex-tourism-in-bahia-ambiguous-entanglements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31805","title":{"rendered":"Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Illinois Press<\/a>
\nDecember 2013
\n224 pages
\n1 map
\n6 x 9 in
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03793-1
\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-252-07944-3<\/p>\n

Erica Lorraine Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
\nSpelman College, Atlanta, Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Winner of the National Women’s Studies Association\/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

How sexism, racism, and socio-economic inequality interact in the Brazilian sex industry<\/em><\/p>\n

Brazil<\/a> has the largest economy of any Latin American country with a population five times greater than any other South American country, and for nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand<\/a> as the world’s premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil<\/strong>, this pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships. Erica Lorraine Williams explores sex tourism in the Brazilian state of Bahia<\/a> from the perspectives of foreign tourists, tourism industry workers, sex workers who engage in liaisons with foreigners, and Afro-Brazilian men and women who contend with foreigners’ stereotypical assumptions about their licentiousness.<\/p>\n

In her analysis, Williams argues that the cultural and sexual economies of tourism are inextricably linked in the Bahian capital city of Salvador’s<\/a> tourism industry. She shows how the Bahian state strategically exploits the touristic desire for exotic culture by appropriating an eroticized blackness and commodifying the Afro-Brazilian culture in order to sell Bahia to foreign travelers. <\/strong>Drawing on eighteen months of ethnographic research and in-depth interviews, Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements<\/em> combines historical, sociological, anthropological, cultural studies, and feminist perspectives to demonstrate how sexism, racism, and socio-economic inequality interact in the context of tourism in Bahia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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