Afro-Brazilian Support for Affirmative Action

Mitchell-Walthour, Gladys

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“…With the implementation of affirmative action law in federal universities in 2012, a few studies have focused on the pervasive racial inequality that afflicts the Brazilian educational system. These studies provide credence to affirmative action policies by showing that nonwhite students perform worse in university entrance exams than white students, even when controlling for family income, parents' education, and other socioeconomic status indicators (Heringer and Johnson 2016;Mitchell-Walthour 2015;Valente 2016Valente , 2017. However, studies have shown that when given the opportunity, affirmative action students perform academically just as well as traditional students (Valente and Berry 2017).…”

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“…of the Secretaria de Promoção de Políticas de Igualdade Racial (Ministry for the Promotion of Equal Racial Policies) in 2003, a surge in activism among the Black Movement permeating political parties, universities, and state/federal institutions, combined with the recent implementation of affirmative action policies in Brazil (Mitchell-Walthour 2015), helped shape Afro-Brazilian racial identity and to some extent propelled many to acknowledge their mixed heritage. The sharp drop in the percentage of whites in Brazilian society seems to stem from this growth in racial consciousness, resulting in significant shifts in the way people perceive race and link their racial identity to African roots over time.…”

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Residential Segregation by Skin Color: Brazil Revisited

Valente

Berry

2020

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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This article examines residential segregation by skin color in forty of the largest metropolitan areas in Brazil, using census tract data from the 2010 Brazilian census. Residential dissimilarity among whites, browns, and blacks is moderate to low by US standards, and residential segregation correlates positively with socioeconomic status. By contrasting our findings with results from the 1980 Brazilian census, we observe that in thirty years, residential segregation decreased significantly in many metropolitan areas, particularly white-brown and brown-black dissimilarities. We speculate as to why these changes should have occurred. Este artigo examina a segregação residencial por raça em quarenta das maiores áreas metropolitanas do Brasil, usando dados do setor censitário do censo Brasileiro de 2010. A dissimilaridade residencial entre brancos, pardos e negros é moderada a baixa pelos padrões dos EUA, e a segregação residencial se correlaciona positivamente com o status socioeconômico. Ao contrastar nossos resultados com o do censo Brasileiro de 1980, observamos que, em trinta anos, a segregação residencial diminuiu significativamente em muitas áreas metropolitanas, particularmente nas dissimilaridades branco-pardo e pardo-negro. Especulamos os motivos pela qual essas mudanças ocorreram.

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Residential Segregation by Skin Color: Brazil Revisited

Valente

Berry

2020

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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“…7 Some universities adopted their own affirmative action frameworks centered around race prior to the national government's actions. 8 A chapter byMitchell-Walthour (2015) analyzing 2012 LAPOP data reached a similar conclusion about the role of education.9 The analysis was based on a sample of the adult population of the state of Rio Grande do Sul.10 The sample was drawn from two cities, Salvador and São Paulo, and focused on the views of Afro-Brazilian university students.11 Concerning the second point, we note that Turgeon, Chaves, and Wives (2014) employ a list experiment design to address social desirability using a sample of university students. The same can be said about the work byVidigal (2018) that examines support among non-Afro-Brazilian university students Pilati and Turgeon (2019),.…”

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Prejudice, Political Ideology, and Interest: Understanding Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action in Brazil

Turgeon

Habel

2021

Political Psychology

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Few public policies have been as consequential or divisive as affirmative action. Proponents have argued for the need for equity and the redress of past and present discrimination, whereas opponents enlist claims over individual liberty and merit. Scholars have examined support to affirmative action, asking to what extent citizens' support is shaped by their political ideology, interest, prejudice, or some combination thereof. Much work to date has focused on the United States, where disentangling theoretical explanations has proved challenging. We turn our attention to an understudied but important case: Brazil. Brazil has implemented a broad form of affirmative action for admission to federal universities that include consideration of the applicant's education, income, and race. Adopting both a conventional question and a list experiment embedded in a face‐to‐face survey among a nationally representative sample of adult Brazilians, we find that public support for affirmative action suffers from social desirability bias, and in our subsequent regression analysis, that attitudes about affirmative action are structured especially by individuals' interests.

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Afro-Brazilian Support for Affirmative Action

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Residential Segregation by Skin Color: Brazil Revisited

Residential Segregation by Skin Color: Brazil Revisited

Prejudice, Political Ideology, and Interest: Understanding Attitudes Toward Affirmative Action in Brazil

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