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Acknowledgments It seems like an insurmountable task to articulate my gratitude and appreciation for everyone who has helped me along the path to completing this book. At Spelman College, I have been fortunate to have an amazing department with the most supportive colleagues. I am immensely grateful for the support, encouragement, and enthusiasm that I have received from Barbara Carter, Mona Phillips, Cynthia Neale Spence, Bruce Wade, Jerry Wever, and Daryl White. Since I took my first feminist theory class with Beverly Guy-Sheftall of the Women’s Research and Resource Center while on domestic exchange at Spelman, she has been an inspiring mentor. I thank her for centering the experiences of women of color in that course and for inspiring a passion for feminist studies that would sustain me for years to come. Financial support for this project came from several sources, for which I am extremely grateful. The UNCF/Mellon Faculty Program awarded me the ABD Faculty Fellowship, which made it possible for me to take a semester off from teaching at Spelman to work on what eventually became this book. In the spring of 2012, I was a Mellon HBCU Fellow at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. Ian Baucom, Christina Chia, Beth Perry, and Mary Williams were integral to making my time at FHI very rewarding and pleasant. It was an ideal situation for revising this manuscript, offering the company of many scholars whom I have long admired, among them Anne Allison, Kia Lilly Caldwell, Sandy Darity, J. Lorand Matory, Mark Anthony Neal, Charles Piot, and Ara Wilson. Special thanks to those who participated in a mini workshop I held at FHI. Many thanks also to the Faculty Resource Network’sScholar-in-Residenceprogram,whichenabledmetospendamonth at New York University during the summer of 2010 working on revisions to the manuscript. In the summer of 2011, a Summer Mentoring Fellowship from x Acknowledgments the Future of Minority Studies Project enabled me to continue the revision process under the mentorship of Beverly Guy-Sheftall. I am also grateful to the team at the University of Illinois Press, especially Larin McLaughlin, as well as the National Women’s Studies Association/University of Illinois First Book Prize Committee. An earlier version of chapter 1 appeared in the article “Sex Work and Exclusion in the Tourist Districts of Salvador, Brazil,” which appeared in Gender, Place, Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography(published online May 7, 2013); and an earlier version of chapter 7 appeared in Policing Pleasure: Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective, edited by Susan Dewey and Patty Kelly (New York: NYU Press, 2011). At Stanford, my research was supported by a five-year graduate fellowship from the School of Humanities and Sciences as well as funding from Graduate Research Opportunity Funds, Vice Provost for Graduate Education Funds, and the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research (Marilyn Yalom Fund and Marjorie Lozoff Paper Prize). I would also like to recognize the Black Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I was a dissertation fellow during the 2008–9 academic year. This fellowship gave me the opportunity to build intellectual community with a dynamic group of scholars in both black studies and feminist studies: Ingrid Banks, Stephanie Baptiste, Eileen Boris, Gaye Theresa Johnson, George Lipsitz, Claudine Michel, Mireille Miller-Young, Jeffrey Stewart, and the late Clyde Woods, among others. Thank you all for the guidance, reading chapter drafts, advice on the job market, and organizing and attending my practice job talks. And of course, I thank my officemate and co-dissertation fellow, Damien Sojoyner, for all of the jokes, video distractions, conversations, and commiseration while we were in the midst of teaching, writing, and being on the job market for the first time. My first trip to Brazil was as an exchange student in the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) program in 2001. This trip gave me my first glimpse into the sexual and cultural politics of the tourism industry in Salvador. I am grateful to the CIEE, the Bailey Scholarship , the Albino family in São Paulo, and Bahian anthropologist Jeferson Bacelar for making my first trip to Brazil such an enriching experience. My fieldwork in Brazil could not have been accomplished without the support of the women of Aprosba, who gave me an opportunity to participate in meetings and talk with them about their lives. I also thank Jacqueline Leite of the Humanitarian Center for the Support of Women (CHAME) for...

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