Fighting for Bem Viver: Black Feminist Activists Take to the Streets in Brazil

Fighting for Bem Viver: Black Feminist Activists Take to the Streets in Brazil

Erica Williams
Africana Studies Visiting Research Associate
Associate Professor - Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Spelman College

Erica L. Williams is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Spelman College. She has a Ph.D. and M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Anthropology and Africana Studies from New York University. She is the author of Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements (2013), and co-editor of The Second Generation of African American Pioneers in Anthropology (2018). She has also published in Feminist Anthropology, Transforming Anthropology, Feminist Studies, Gender, Place, and Culture; as well as several book chapters in edited volumes. She is currently working on two projects - an ethnography of Black feminist activism in Salvador, Brazil, and an autoethnographic travel memoir.