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  • Shifting Racial Subjectivities and Ideologies in Brazil

    Our findings proxy broad ideological shift from racial ambiguity to negro racial affirmation. They suggest race-targeted policy is transforming racial subjectivities and ideologies in Brazil.

  • Interrogating Race: Color, Racial Categories, and Class Across the Americas

    Interrogating Race: Color, Racial Categories, and Class Across the Americas American Behavioral Scientist Volume 60, Number 4 (April 2016) pages 538-555 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613400 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Fabrício M. Fialho University of California, Los Angeles Andrew M. Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine We address…

  • Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas

    Race, color, and income inequality across the Americas Demographic Research Volume 31 Article 24 (2014-09-19) pages 735-756 DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2014.31.24 Stanley Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology Stanford University Andrew Penner, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Background: Racial inequality in the U.S. is typically…

  • The essence of this [racial democracy] myth is contained within allegory common to school texts in Brazil

    The essence of this [racial democracy] myth is contained within an allegory common to school texts in Brazil addressing the origins of that nation’s population: the “fable of three races” (Da Matta 1997). This fable holds that the people of Brazil originated from three formerly discrete racial entities: Europeans, Africans, and Indians. These “races” subsequently…

  • Group Dominance and the Myth of Racial Democracy: Antiracism Attitudes in Brazil

    Group dominance perspectives contend that ideologies are central to the production and reproduction of racial oppression by their negative affect on attitudes toward antiracism initiatives. The Brazilian myth of racial democracy frequently is framed in this light, evoked as a racist ideology to explain an apparent lack of confrontation of racial inequality.

  • Measures of “Race” and the Analysis of Racial Inequality in Brazil

    Measures of “Race” and the Analysis of Racial Inequality in Brazil Social Science Research Available online 2012-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.06.006 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeronimo O. Muniz, Assistant Professor of Sociology Federal University of Minas Gerais Quantitative analyses of…

  • Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality

    Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Number 8, August 2012 pages 1466-1483 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.607503 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeronimo O. Muniz, Assistant Professor of Sociology Federal University of Minas Gerais Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Bailey]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? [Review: Bailey] Contemporary Sociology Volume 36, Number 6 (November 2007) pages 535-536 DOI: 10.1177/009430610703600609 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?, by G. Reginald Daniel. University Park, PA: The…

  • University Racial Quotas in Brazil…

    At the federal university in Brazil’s capital city, Brasília, a special committee was constituted in 2004 to evaluate the application file photographs of self-classified negros (read “blacks” or “Afro-Brazilians”) applying to the university via a new racial quota system. An anthropologist, a sociologist, a student representative, and three negro movement actors make up that committee,…

  • Unmixing for Race Making in Brazil

    This article analyzes race-targeted policy in Brazil as both a political stake and a powerful instrument in an unfolding classificatory struggle over the definition of racial boundaries.