{"id":8103,"date":"2010-07-26T23:11:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T23:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8103"},"modified":"2013-05-11T01:02:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T01:02:46","slug":"endogenous-race-in-brazil-affirmative-action-and-the-construction-of-racial-identity-among-young-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8103","title":{"rendered":"Endogenous Race in Brazil: Affirmative Action and the Construction of Racial Identity among Young Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_Brasilia\" target=\"_blank\">Endogenous Race in Brazil: Affirmative Action and the Construction of Racial Identity among Young Adults<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Working Paper<br \/>\n2010-01-10<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/userwww.service.emory.edu\/~afranc5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew M. Francis<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Economics<br \/>\n<em>Emory University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:tannuri@unb.br\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Tannuri-Pianto<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Economics<br \/>\n<em>University of Brasilia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> is not only characterized by racial diversity but also by socioeconomic inequality. This complexity, plus the recent adoption of racial quotas by a handful of universities, makes Brazil an ideal place to study the construction of racial identity. In this paper, we examine applicants and students of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unb.br\/linguas\/english\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">University of Brasilia<\/a>, which established racial quotas in July 2004 reserving 20% of available admissions slots for students who self-identified as black. Using admissions data as well as a student survey conducted by the authors, we explore the determinants of racial identity, including socioeconomic status, parents&#8217; race, academic performance, and quotas in admissions. We find that, holding skin tone constant, socioeconomic status and academic performance vary inversely with black identity. <strong>The evidence suggests that young adults in mixed race families are more likely to identify with their mother&#8217;s race than their father&#8217;s, and that this pattern relates to gender and father&#8217;s absence during childhood.<\/strong> We also find that quotas in university admissions increased the likelihood that applicants and students self-identified as non-white, and that this phenomenon was attributable, in part, to actual change in racial identity.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire paper <a href=\"http:\/\/userwww.service.emory.edu\/~afranc5\/Endogenous%20Race%20in%20Brazil.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endogenous Race in Brazil: Affirmative Action and the Construction of Racial Identity among Young Adults Working Paper 2010-01-10 Andrew M. Francis, Professor of Economics Emory University Maria Tannuri-Pianto, Professor of Economics University of Brasilia Brazil is not only characterized by racial diversity but also by socioeconomic inequality. This complexity, plus the recent adoption of racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,2895,21,14647,8,14,26,394],"tags":[3420,3419,3418,3421],"class_list":["post-8103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-campus-life","category-latincarib","category-economics","category-media-archive","category-papers","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-andrew-francis","tag-andrew-m-francis","tag-maria-tannuri-pianto","tag-university-of-brasilia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103","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=8103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}