The cultural economy of the contemporary Canadian sex industry, particularly the upscale sectors, requires workers to conform to white aesthetics and gestures in conscious attempts to generate desire among white consumers. This article, drawing on a qualitative study, posits Canadian sex workers of color as a critical point of inquiry to understand how they negotiate market expectations against the backdrop of popular representation of, for example, the “Jezebel,” “Sapphire,” the Dragon lady, and the Bollywood Queen. Sex workers of color in my sample are mostly immigrant women and Canadian women with full or partial ancestry in a foreign country. Drawing attention to research participants’ immaterial and intimate labor practices, which include emotional and aesthetic labor processes, I examine how these sex workers of color utilize diasporic capital to juxtapose dominant gender-, class-, and citizenship-based negative controlling images against sexual racism. Such labor practices involve negotiating their multiple, fluid, and overlapping identities as the workers unapologetically celebrate and revalorize their diasporic identities and cultures. Strategically mobilizing economic, social, cultural, and symbolic capital facilitates the transformation of their body capital to establish a minority niche within the contemporary sex markets.

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侨民之都：加拿大有色人种性工作者黑客攻击性种族主义


当代加拿大性产业的文化经济，尤其是高档行业，要求工人有意识地尝试在白人消费者中产生欲望，从而符合白人的审美和手势。本文借鉴了一项定性研究，将加拿大有色人种性工作者作为一个关键的调查点，以了解他们如何在“Jezebel”、“Sapphire”、Dragon Lady 和 Bollywood Queen 等流行代表的背景下协商市场预期。在我的样本中，有色人种性工作者大多是移民女性和在外国有全部或部分血统的加拿大女性。提请注意研究参与者的非物质和亲密劳动实践，包括情感和审美劳动过程，我研究了这些有色人种性工作者如何利用侨民资本将占主导地位的基于性别、阶级和公民身份的负面控制形象与性种族主义并列。这种劳动实践涉及协商他们的多重、流动和重叠的身份，因为工人们毫无歉意地庆祝和重新评估他们的侨民身份和文化。战略性地动员经济、社会、文化和象征资本，促进了他们的身体资本转型，从而在当代性市场中建立了少数群体的利基市场。