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Anxious pleasures: Race and sexual economies of transnational tourism in Salvador, Brazil.

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書名/作者:	Anxious pleasures: Race and sexual economies of transnational tourism in Salvador, Brazil.
作者:	Williams, Erica Lorraine.
面頁冊數:	27 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-01, Section: A, page: 0233.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-01A.
標題:	Black Studies.
標題:	Anthropology, Cultural.
標題:	Women's Studies.
標題:	Recreation.
ISBN:	9781109585230
摘要、提要註:	My dissertation is an ethnography of the cultural and sexual politics of the transnational tourism industry in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It investigates how discourses of black hypersexuality have constructed Salvador as a "site of desire" in the global tourist imaginary, and explores the lived effects that these discourses have on the everyday lives of Afro-Brazilian women and men in Salvador. Drawing upon data collected during 18 months of ethnographic field research conducted between June 2005 and August 2008, my dissertation advances a transnational/black feminist analysis of sex tourism. It highlights the dynamic between sex tourism and the commodification of Afro-Brazilian culture by examining how the Bahian state strategically appropriates an eroticized blackness and Afro-Brazilian culture to "sell" Bahia to foreign tourists. The specter of sex tourism in Salvador has created profound anxieties for both foreign tourists and Bahians alike, and has had an impact on how people relate to each other across transnational borders. The prevalence of sex tourism, the sensationalist media that surrounds it, and even the campaigns to stop it, creates a moral panic around black sexuality that unwittingly reinforces stereotypes.
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Anxious pleasures: Race and sexual economies of transnational tourism in Salvador, Brazil.
Williams, Erica Lorraine.

Anxious pleasures: Race and sexual economies of transnational tourism in Salvador, Brazil. - 27 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-01, Section: A, page: 0233.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2010.

My dissertation is an ethnography of the cultural and sexual politics of the transnational tourism industry in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. It investigates how discourses of black hypersexuality have constructed Salvador as a "site of desire" in the global tourist imaginary, and explores the lived effects that these discourses have on the everyday lives of Afro-Brazilian women and men in Salvador. Drawing upon data collected during 18 months of ethnographic field research conducted between June 2005 and August 2008, my dissertation advances a transnational/black feminist analysis of sex tourism. It highlights the dynamic between sex tourism and the commodification of Afro-Brazilian culture by examining how the Bahian state strategically appropriates an eroticized blackness and Afro-Brazilian culture to "sell" Bahia to foreign tourists. The specter of sex tourism in Salvador has created profound anxieties for both foreign tourists and Bahians alike, and has had an impact on how people relate to each other across transnational borders. The prevalence of sex tourism, the sensationalist media that surrounds it, and even the campaigns to stop it, creates a moral panic around black sexuality that unwittingly reinforces stereotypes.

ISBN: 9781109585230Subjects--Topical Terms:

475192
Black Studies.

Anxious pleasures: Race and sexual economies of transnational tourism in Salvador, Brazil.
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520 $a My ethnographic research consisted of conducting archival research on visual representations of Bahia, Bahians, and Afro-Brazilian culture (i.e. in postcards, media, and popular culture), attending a wide range of activities promoted for tourists in Salvador (i.e. tours, folkloric shows and Afro-Brazilian dance classes), frequenting various sites within the tourist districts of Pelourinho and Barra (i.e. beaches, cyber cafes, bars, and restaurants), immersing myself in the activities of the local sex workers' association, and interviewing informants ranging from foreign tourists and the Bahians who have liaisons with them (both sex workers and non-sex workers), to hotel staff, tour guides, police officers, activists, and governmental officials.
520 $a The theoretical framework of my dissertation combines three bodies of scholarship: tourism studies, transnational/black feminisms, and the social science literature on race in Brazil. I contribute to tourism studies scholarship by bringing together two topics often considered in isolation---"cultural tourism" and "sex tourism." My scholarly intervention highlights how structural, gendered, and sexualized racisms are experienced by Afro-Brazilians on an everyday basis by studying the eroticization of black bodies and Afro-Brazilian cultural production in the global tourist market. Although Brazil is a significant site of sex tourism in the world, there is an alarming dearth of scholarship on sex tourism in Brazil. With the exception of the work of Brazil-based anthropologist, Adriana Piscitelli, on sex tourism in Fortaleza, Brazil, the anthropological literature on sex tourism in Latin America focuses almost exclusively on Cuba and the Dominican Republic. By offering an in-depth, ethnographic study on sex tourism in the "Black Mecca" of Salvador, Bahia, my work not only fills a gap in the literature on sex tourism in Brazil and Latin America, but it also fills a need for substantive studies that contextualize how race, gender, and sexuality are inextricably linked in the African Diaspora.
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