{"id":20673,"date":"2012-02-15T04:29:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T04:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20673"},"modified":"2014-12-19T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:16:24","slug":"brazil-in-black-and-white-race-categories-the-census-and-the-study-of-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20673","title":{"rendered":"Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2011.607503\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/rers20\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/rers20\/35\/8\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 35, Number 8, August 2012<\/a><br \/>\npages 1466-\u00011483<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2011.607503\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01419870.2011.607503<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssc.wisc.edu\/~mloveman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mara Loveman<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of Wisconsin, Madison<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:jeronimomuniz@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Jeronimo O. Muniz<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Federal University of Minas Gerais<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faculty.uci.edu\/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5101\" target=\"_blank\">Stanley R. Bailey<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>University of California, Irvine<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many scholars advocate the adoption of a black-and-white lens for the analysis of racial inequality in Brazil. Drawing on a nationally representative dataset that includes race questions in multiple formats, we evaluate how removal of the \u2018brown\u2019 category from the census or other social surveys would likely affect: (1) the descriptive picture of Brazil&#8217;s racial composition; and (2) estimates of income inequality between and within racial categories. We find that a forced binary question format results in a whiter and more racially unequal picture of Brazil through the movement of many higher income mixed-race respondents into the white category. We also find that regardless of question format, racial inequality in income accounts for relatively little of Brazil&#8217;s overall income inequality. We discuss implications for public policy debates in Brazil, and for the broader scientific and political challenges of ethnic and racial data collection and analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Read\u00a0the entire\u00a0article <a href=\"https:\/\/webfiles.uci.edu\/bailey\/Publications\/Loveman,%20Muniz,%20and%20Bailey%202012.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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-\u00011483 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,33,8,26,394],"tags":[461,8082,8081,8083,3018,199],"class_list":["post-20673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-jeronimo-muniz","tag-jeronimo-o-muniz","tag-mara-loveman","tag-stanley-bailey","tag-stanley-r-bailey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}