{"id":24190,"date":"2012-07-07T19:36:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T19:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24190"},"modified":"2014-10-17T14:56:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-17T14:56:52","slug":"measures-of-%e2%80%9crace%e2%80%9d-and-the-analysis-of-racial-inequality-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24190","title":{"rendered":"Measures of \u201cRace\u201d and the Analysis of Racial Inequality in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ssresearch.2012.06.006\" target=\"_blank\">Measures of \u201cRace\u201d and the Analysis of Racial Inequality in Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/journal\/0049089X\" target=\"_blank\">Social Science Research<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable online 2012-07-05<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ssresearch.2012.06.006\" target=\"_blank\">10.1016\/j.ssresearch.2012.06.006<\/a><\/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><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>Quantitative analyses of racial disparities typically rely on a single categorical measure to operationalize race. We demonstrate the value of an approach that compares results obtained using various measures of race. Using a national probability sample of the Brazilian population that captured race in six formats, we first show how the racial composition of Brazil can shift from majority white to majority black depending on the classification scheme. In addition, using quantile regression, we find that racial disparities are most severe at the upper end of the income distribution; that racial disparities in earnings are larger when race is defined by interviewers rather than self-identified; and that those classified as \u201cblack\u201d suffer a greater wage penalty than those classified as \u201cbrown.\u201d Our findings extend prior conclusions about racial inequality in Brazil. More generally, our analysis demonstrates that comparison of results across measures represents a neglected source of analytic leverage for advancing empirical knowledge and theoretical understanding of how race, as a multidimensional social construct, contributes to the production of social inequality.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0049089X12001512?v=s5\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Measures of \u201cRace\u201d 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,8,394],"tags":[8082,8081,8083,822,3018,199],"class_list":["post-24190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-jeronimo-muniz","tag-jeronimo-o-muniz","tag-mara-loveman","tag-social-science-research","tag-stanley-bailey","tag-stanley-r-bailey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24190","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=24190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}