Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy

While much attention has been paid in recent years to heterosexual prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, gay sex tourism has been almost completely overlooked. In Tourist Attractions, Gregory C. Mitchell presents a pioneering ethnography that focuses on the personal lives and identities of male sex workers who occupy a variety of roles in Brazil’s sexual economy. Mitchell takes us into the bath houses of Rio de Janeiro, where rent boys cruise for clients, and to the beaches of Salvador da Bahia, where African American gay men seek out hustlers while exploring cultural heritage tourist sites. His ethnography stretches into the Amazon, where indigenous fantasies are tinged with the erotic at eco-resorts, and into the homes of “kept men,” who forge long-term, long-distance, transnational relationships that blur the boundaries of what counts as commercial sex. Mitchell asks how tourists perceive sex workers’ performances of Brazilianness, race, and masculinity, and, in turn, how these two groups of men make sense of differing models of racial and sexual identity across cultural boundaries. He proposes that in order to better understand how people experience difference sexually, we reframe prostitution—which Marxist feminists have long conceptualized as sexual labor—as also being a form of performative labor. Tourist Attractions is an exceptional ethnography poised to make an indelible impact in the fields of anthropology, gender, and sexuality, and research on prostitution and tourism.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mitchell, Gregory

Psychology & Counseling

University of Chicago Press

While much attention has been paid in recent years to heterosexual prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, gay sex tourism has been almost completely overlooked. In Tourist Attractions, Gregory C. Mitchell presents a pioneering ethnography that focuses on the personal lives and identities of male sex workers who occupy a variety of roles in Brazil’s sexual economy. Mitchell takes us into the bath houses of Rio de Janeiro, where rent boys cruise for clients, and to the beaches of Salvador da Bahia, where African American gay men seek out hustlers while exploring cultural heritage tourist sites. His ethnography stretches into the Amazon, where indigenous fantasies are tinged with the erotic at eco-resorts, and into the homes of “kept men,” who forge long-term, long-distance, transnational relationships that blur the boundaries of what counts as commercial sex. Mitchell asks how tourists perceive sex workers’ performances of Brazilianness, race, and masculinity, and, in turn, how these two groups of men make sense of differing models of racial and sexual identity across cultural boundaries. He proposes that in order to better understand how people experience difference sexually, we reframe prostitution—which Marxist feminists have long conceptualized as sexual labor—as also being a form of performative labor. Tourist Attractions is an exceptional ethnography poised to make an indelible impact in the fields of anthropology, gender, and sexuality, and research on prostitution and tourism.

Dad tries to show the family how to fish but does not serve as a very good example.

Going Fishing (Voyages Series)

Children's Books

Our Playhouse (Voyages Series)

A little boy describes some ways in which he is like other members of his family.

Simply Sam (Voyages Series)

We are living in a time of great panic about "sex trafficking"--an idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite such baseless statistical claims, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these events. However, police violence against sex workers always does. While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts the move of sex trafficking into the realm of the spectacular--street protests, awareness-raising campaigns, telenovelas, social media, and celebrity spokespeople--where it spreads across borders. This trend is dangerous because these events happen in moments of nationalist fervor during which fears of foreigners and migrants are heightened and easily exploited to frightening ends.&nbsp; &nbsp;

Panics without Borders: How Global Sporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking (New Sexual Worlds) (Volume 1)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of California Press

From the Back Cover\n"Panics without Borders is rooted in the responses of sex workers who are impacted by human rights abuses that happen to us under the guise of rescue missions. Bravely treading geographies of violence, the book surveys the rise of the anti-trafficking industry through a study of xenophobic, racist, anti-sex-worker campaigns and policies during global sports events."—Carol Leigh, Director of BAYSWAN\n"Panics without Borders maps the sex trafficking discourse on a global stage and powerfully reveals how larger political patterns of corruption and the weaponization of false statistics lead to the proliferation of harmful myths, which spur moral panics to justify the hyperpolicing of sex workers. This book examines the dangerous shifts within sex-trafficking movements and reveals how women become collateral damage under the guise of rescue and protection. This book is essential reading for understanding bigger questions about how data can be manipulated to serve political purposes and the consequences it has on the lives of real people all around the world."—Kimberly Kay Hoang, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, and author of Dealing in Desire and Spiderweb Capitalism\n"Panics without Borders will make an important contribution in the current literature on sex trafficking. I have not seen any book of this kind that is truly comparative in scope and that challenges the myth of the 40,000 missing girls. It gives serious attention to how the people supposedly being trafficked understand themselves in the world."—Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, author of Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil\n"Panics without Borders is the first full-length ethnography to focus on mega events and the trafficking myth. It provides ethnographic evidence to refute the baseless claim that sports events correspond with increases in sex trafficking and exploitation."—Erica Lorraine Williams, author of Sex Tourism in Bahia\nWe are living in a time of great panic about “sex trafficking”—an idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite baseless statistical claims to the contrary, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these global mega-events—but police violence against sex workers always does.\nWhile advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts the move of sex trafficking into the realm of the spectacular—street protests, awareness-raising campaigns, telenovelas, social media, and celebrity spokespeople—where it then spreads across borders. This trend is dangerous because these events happen in moments of nationalist fervor during which fears of foreigners and migrants are heightened and easily exploited to frightening ends.

American Courts Explained takes students on a detailed tour of American courts by following two real cases―one criminal, one civil―from the events that gave rise to them, through pre-trial proceedings, jury trials, and appeals. Along the way there are stops in state and federal trial and appellate courts, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court. It introduces readers to major debates relating to the courts: How "political" are judges? How well do different methods of selecting judges work? Do ordinary people have adequate access to lawyers? Should we trust jurors to decide complex and emotional cases? But it presents these debates in the context of actual cases so that readers can see why these debates matter to the parties, lawyers, judges, and jurors. The conviction behind this approach is that students learn best when engaged by vivid, interesting cases with details that make abstract debates and difficult legal concepts meaningful and easier to understand. By the end of this book, readers will find that the judicial process has been demystified. They will have a firm understanding of what litigants, lawyers and judges do, will understand the structure and procedure of American civil and criminal courts, will see the purposes served by judicial rules and procedures, and will see what effect these rules, and procedures have on the outcomes of cases. Readers will have acquired the knowledge needed to critically evaluate the legal institutions we have and proposals for changing them.

American Courts Explained: A Detailed Introduction to the Legal Process Using Real Cases (Higher Education Coursebook)

Klein, David

Legal Education

West Academic Publishing

This book describes the structure and functions of state and federal judicial systems within the United States. The primary mission of the book is to introduce beginning law students and lawyers from other countries to the basics of the federal and state court systems of the United States, but sufficient detail is provided to make the book a handy reference source for anyone doing research on American courts. The appendices present detailed information about the judicial personnel and different structures of the federal and state courts. This new edition reflects the changes in case management procedures, court personnel, and, in some instances, state court structure that have been made over the past decade to deal with changes in the types and numbers of cases being filed with the courts.

American Courts (Coursebook)

Meador, Daniel

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Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy

Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy

Going Fishing (Voyages Series)

Our Playhouse (Voyages Series)

Simply Sam (Voyages Series)

Panics without Borders: How Global Sporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking (New Sexual Worlds) (Volume 1)

Panics without Borders: How Global Sporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking (New Sexual Worlds) (Volume 1)

American Courts Explained: A Detailed Introduction to the Legal Process Using Real Cases (Higher Education Coursebook)

American Courts (Coursebook)