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Pete Sigal is Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University.
Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.
Neil L. Whitehead (1956–2012) was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
List of contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Ethnopornography as Methodology and Critique / Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, and Neil L. Whitehead 1
Part I. Visualizing Race
1. Exotic/Erotic/Ethnopornographic: Black Women, Desire, and Labor in the Photographic Archive / Mireille Miller-Young 41
2. "Hung, Hot, and Shameless in Bed": Blackness, Desire, and Politics in a Brazilian Gay Porn Magazine, 1997–2008 / Bryan Pitts 67
3. The Ghosts of Gaytanamo / Beatrix McBride 97
4. Under White Men's Eyes: Racialized Eroticism, Ethnographic Encounters, and the Maintenance of the Colonial Order / Sidra Lawrence 118
Part II. Ethnopornography as Colonial History
5. Franciscan Voyeurism in Sixteenth-Century New Spain / Pete Sigal 139
6. European Travelogues and Ottoman Sexuality: Sodomitical Crossings Abroad, 1550–1850 / Joseph Allen Boone 169
7. Sexualizing the Other: From Ethnopornography to Interracial Pornography in European Travel Writing about West African Women / Pernille Ipsen 205
8. "Men Like Us": The Invention of Ethnopornography / Helen Pringle 225
Conclusion: Ethnopornography Coda / Neil L. Whitehead 245
Contributors 253
Index 257
About the author
Pete Sigal, Zeb Tortorici, and Neil L. Whitehead, editors
Summary
With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography—the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes—is fundamental to the creation of race, colonialism, and archival and ethnographic knowledge.
