{"id":21229,"date":"2012-03-09T21:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T21:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=21229"},"modified":"2012-03-09T22:42:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T22:42:31","slug":"educational-disadvantages-associated-with-race-still-persist-in-brazil-despite-improvements-new-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=21229","title":{"rendered":"Educational Disadvantages Associated with Race Still Persist in Brazil Despite Improvements, New Study Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

Educational Disadvantages Associated with Race Still Persist in Brazil Despite Improvements, New Study Shows<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Texas, Austin
\nDepartment of Sociology<\/a>
\n2012-01-19<\/p>\n

Despite notable improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, disadvantages associated with race still persist in Brazil, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although educational advantages for white over black and pardo<\/em> (mixed-race) adolescents declined considerably in Brazil, the gap is still significant, with whites completing nearly one year more of education.<\/p>\n

Sociologist and Population Research Center<\/a> affiliate Leticia Marteleto<\/a> investigated educational inequalities using the nationally representative data from Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domic\u00edlios <\/em>from 1982 to 2007. Her findings will be published in the February issue of the journal Demography<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the educational advantage of whites has persisted over this period, I found that the significance of race as it relates to education has changed in important ways,\u201d Marteleto said.<\/p>\n

By 2007, adolescents who identified themselves as blacks and pardos<\/em> became more similar in their education levels, whereas in the past blacks had greater disadvantages, according to the study. Marteleto tested two possible explanations for this shift: structural changes in income levels and parents\u2019 education, and shifts in racial classification…<\/p>\n

…The second potential explanation for the closing educational gap between pardo<\/em> and black Brazilians is a shift in racial identity. Children of college-educated black fathers and mothers have a greater probability of being identified by their family as black in 2007, while in 1982 these associations were still considered negative.<\/strong> This seems to explain \u2014 at least in part \u2014 some of the increases in the educational attainment of those identified as black in relation to pardo<\/em>, since highly educated Brazilians now have a disproportionately higher likelihood of identifying their children as black rather than either white or pardo…<\/em><\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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