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Racial Hierarchies of Desire and the Specter of Sex Tourism
2013
Overview
I met Becky, a twenty-nine-year-old schoolteacher from Portland, Oregon, at the bus stop in Barra when I saw acaçador(hunter) flirting with her. A blond, blue-eyed American woman, she looked visibly annoyed and uninterested. When the Praça da Sé bus came, she sat next to me, so we started a conversation. On her third trip to Bahia, Becky was renting a two-bedroom apartment in Barra with eight other people for a weeklong capoeira event. Before she left Portland, some of Becky’s friends joked that she “would come back with a husband.” “People thought I would have a harem,” she
