Race, Gender, Class and Rape: Exclusion and Violence in Relations between Locals and Tourists in Florianoopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

This study discusses the case of Jairo. Born in Florianopolis, black, a domestic servant's son, Jairo experiences lifelong economic, social, and racial exclusion: during childhood he drops out of school in the fourth grade before even learning how to read and write; as a teenager, working in co...

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Published in:Physis (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Brazil), 2006-01, Vol.16 (1), p.29-44
Main Author: Motta, Flavia de Mattos
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Subjects:
Case Studies
Class Differences
Race
Rape
Sex
Violence
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Summary:This study discusses the case of Jairo. Born in Florianopolis, black, a domestic servant's son, Jairo experiences lifelong economic, social, and racial exclusion: during childhood he drops out of school in the fourth grade before even learning how to read and write; as a teenager, working in construction and odd jobs, he fails to adapt to the world of work and gradually gets involved in misdemeanors (drug use, petty theft). At 19 he is arrested (beaten), tried, and convicted to 17 years in prison for having assaulted, robbed, and raped a white middle-class tourist in the dunes near his house, when she was walking back from the beach. Even while agreeing that the case illustrates one of the most barbarous forms of violence against women, and one that must be combated, the current article focuses on another issue. This particular case highlights a given dimension of relations between locals and foreigners in the paradisiacal beach landscape of Florianopolis, namely the violent side of these relations, in which race, culture, class, and gender aspects converge (and in some cases accumulate). References. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0103-7331