Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements
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Erica Lorraine Williams, former FHI Mellon HBCU Fellow, on her new book, Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements.
When Brazil's tourism department uses Black sexuality to promotes their nation as a paradise of escape, how are Afro-Brazilian women viewed and treated in light of this marketing? Fantastic talk from Prof. Williams.
Erica Lorraine Williams is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Spelman College. Professor Williams won the National Women's Studies Association/University of Illinois Press First Book Prize for Sex Tourism in Bahia.
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