CRG Symposium, 11/8/11: Racializing Sexual Economies: 
Sex Trade, Trafficking, and the Political Agency of People of Color & Indigenous People

Speakers:
Annie Fukushima, UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures

Shira Hassan, Young Women's Empowerment Project
 
Xandra Ibarra, $pread Magazine Race Issue co-editor

Kamala Kempadoo, York University, editor of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights

Andrea Ritchie, Streetwise & Safe, and co-author of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States

Elizabeth Sy, Banteay Srei

Jessica Yee, Native Youth Sexual Health Network

More info: crg.berkeley.edu/content/racializing-sexual-economies-audio

Racializing Sexual Economies - Introductions

On this episode James talks with Erica Lorraine Williams, Assistant Professor at Spelman College and author of 'Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements.' They discuss Erica’s book, which explores how Brazil’s sex tourism industry affects Afro-Brazilian women’s lives in the Brazilian state of Bahia. They also look more broadly at how Afro-Brazilian women have been impacted by the election of president Jair Balsanaro, and the ways they have organized to resist this current regime.

You can learn more about Erica's book here: [https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/67nsg8gz9780252037931.html]

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