Abstract
This study aimed to understand the experiences of exclusion, discrimination and resistance in the speech of a black sex worker, who works in a brothel in the country side of São Paulo state, Brazil. The participant observation methodology was used and a semi-structured interview was conducted with a black woman who worked in a house where all other professionals were white. Data analysis was guided by the Braun and Clarke model and addressed the main themes that concern the professional development in the world of sex workers. Reports showed that the co-workers and customers undertook a remarkable process of exclusion of the interviewee, based on the fact that she belonged to a different racial group. Despite facing the “exclusion within the exclusion”, the participant did not legitimize the prejudice which she was victim of and, therefore, made use of strategies to minimize the impact that racial discrimination had on her.
Prostitution; Sex Workers; Racism; Gender; Prejudice