Papers by Erica Lorraine Williams
Hypatia
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Feminist Anthropology, 2020
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The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, 2012
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The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, 2012
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Feminist Anthropology, 2021
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The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, 2012
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Abstract: My dissertation is an ethnography of the cultural and sexual politics of the transnatio... more Abstract: 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 ...
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Black Sexual Economies, 2019
The sexual labor of music making began, in earnest, with the classic Blues women of the 1920s who... more The sexual labor of music making began, in earnest, with the classic Blues women of the 1920s who epitomized the turn to a national Black popular culture. Gertrude “Ma” Rainey was one of the most prolific of her cohort and made a career describing, in intimate detail, the interior lives of Black women and working class communities. Her popularity was a testament to her talents as a singer and performer but also to the skill of those around her, including the “Father of the Gospel Blues,” composer Thomas Dorsey and his wife, seamstress Nettie Dorsey. The materiality of the relationship shared between Mrs. Dorsey and Rainey is found in the dresses painstakingly sewn by Dorsey and glamorously displayed on stage by Rainey. While pleasant for the eye, these dresses also carry sounds—the music of its making as well as its performative display, making this object a text. In this examination, Redmond exposes the close proximities that exist within the costumes sewn by Mrs. Dorsey and worn b...
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Journal of international women's studies, 2019
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For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destina... more For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, 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 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. 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.
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Feminist Anthropology
This collective statement provides a general overview of the Cite Black Women movement, its princ... more This collective statement provides a general overview of the Cite Black Women movement, its principles, intellectual genealogy, charge, and history. It is both a reflection and an outline of the project's primary principles, hopes, and dreams.
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This volume brings together emerging and leading scholars in the field of anthropology to reflect... more This volume brings together emerging and leading scholars in the field of anthropology to reflect on the intellectual trajectories of fifteen African American anthropologists who earned their doctorates in anthropology between 1960 and 1969. Following in the footsteps of African American Pioneers in Anthropology (Harrison and Harrison 1999), this volume documents the quest for knowledge, respect, truth and value in the inspiring work of the next generation of black anthropologists. This volume features the intellectual biographies of James Lowell Gibbs Jr., Charles Warren II, William Alfred Shack, Diane K. Lewis, Delmos Jones, Niara Sudarkasa, Johnnetta Betsch Cole, John Langston Gwaltney, Ira E. Harrison, Audrey Smedley, George Clement Bond, Oliver Osborne, Anselme Remy, Vera Mae Green, and Claudia Mitchell-Kernan. This book reflects on the trajectories, challenges, and accomplishments of this second generation of black anthropologists.
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Transforming Anthropology
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Journal of Latin American Studies
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Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes
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Ethnos
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The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology
This chapter explores Niara Sudarkasa’s trajectory as a scholar, activist, and higher education a... more This chapter explores Niara Sudarkasa’s trajectory as a scholar, activist, and higher education administrator. Born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and educated at Fisk University, Oberlin College, and Columbia University, Sudarkasa is an Africanist who conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Nigeria and other West African countries. She has made significant contributions to scholarship on feminist anthropology, African Studies, gender and migration, and extended families in the African diaspora. She also served as the president of Lincoln University.
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University of Illinois Press
This chapter examines the racial and class dynamics of Aprosba (Association of Prostitutes of Bah... more This chapter examines the racial and class dynamics of Aprosba (Association of Prostitutes of Bahia), the only organization in Bahia run by and for sex workers, as well as its impact on the lives of some of its members. It first provides a background on Aprosba's history and activities and goes on to describe its place in state, regional, and transnational networks of sex workers' associations. It then considers the ethnography of Aprosba members in relation to the theoretical and political distinctions related to terms such as prostitute and sex worker as well as into the debate regarding whether sex work can be understood as a practice or an identity. It also explores the activism and organizing efforts of grassroots Brazilian sex workers on the local, national, and transnational scenes, focusing on Aprosba's training initiative called Projeto sem Vergonha (Without Shame Project). The chapter highlights the racial politics of sex work in Salvador, and especially the po...
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