E se o gringo for negão ? Raça, gênero e sexualidade no Rio de Janeiro a experiência de turistas negros norte-americanos

Abstract

The ethnic tourism is one of the potential areas for the development of the national tourist activity nowadays in Brazil, since the historic interest of African-Americans widens through the popularization of an ethnic tourist product. This dissertation is the result of a research, made with African-American tourists in Rio de Janeiro, which shows the way, as consumers and through racial demands, they manage to influence the configuration of the carioca s tourist market. Curiously, behind those demands was a political background, oriented by gender roles, which helps to visualize the dynamic of the sexual tourism involving that population in the Wonderful City. It shows that the African-American tourist universe in Rio is basically divided into two groups: the ethnic one, which is mainly formed by women and, the sexual one, only formed by men. Such a difference suggests that the racial demands imposed by the ethnic tourism may be gender oriented, which indicates the African-American women preoccupation in establishing identities and finding out the differences about places where blacks may have taken part of the local history, which has nothing to do with the concerns of the sexual tourists .