Inconsistências e consequências da variável raça para a mensuração de desigualdades

Abstract

Exceto onde especificado diferentemente, a matéria publicada neste periódico é licenciada sob forma de uma licença Creative Commons -Atribuição 4. Abstract: "It is not possible to separate people by race in Brazil" (Fry et al., 2007). This common and long-standing argument is part of the Brazilian racial classification system at least since the early 20th century. The inability to identify target populations has also been a reason to be skeptical about the success of affirmative action programs implemented to mitigate persistent racial inequalities in Brazil. This article investigates the association between inconsistencies in racial classification and the level and composition of inequalities in education and consumption. Using unique data from the 2002 Brazilian Social Survey (PESB), we show that individuals whose race/color was inconsistently reported account for at least half of total inequality and more than a third of inter-racial inequality. After excluding inconsistently classified individuals from our sample, however, the share of inter-racial inequalities does not substantially change, demonstrating that racial uncertainty has little influence on racial inequality in Brazil.

Does race response shift impact racial inequality?

“…As Roth explains, in everyday life and across contexts, individuals "experience 'race' not as a single, consistent identity but as a number of conflicting dimensions" (2016: 1310). The effect of multidimensionality may appear as racial inconsistency across classification formats (or dimensions), between selfversus interviewer classification, and in open-versus closed-format questions (Bailey, Loveman, and Muniz 2013;Loveman, Bailey, and Muniz 2012;Muniz 2010Muniz , 2016Telles and Lim 1998).…”

Groupness Racial E Flutuações Atitudinais De Pardos Entre Fronteiras Simbólicas E Sociais

“…Exemplo disso é que, quando incitados a se autoclassificarem como brancos ou pretos, 40% dos pardos se identificam com a primeira categoria (Bailey, 2009). Na linha desse raciocínio, Muniz (2012Muniz ( , 2016 verificou persistentes inconsistências de categorização racial, principalmente per-vasivas aos indivíduos classificados como pardos; análise também feita (mas de forma qualitativa) por Moraes Silva e Leão (2012).…”

Volatilidade classificatória e a (in)consistência da desigualdade racial

“…Procedural uncertainty has little effect on the size of racial inequalities, whether for consumption, income 34 , or health outcomes 35 . When individuals whose race changes according to the data collection methodology (photo, interview, interviewer, or ancestry) are excluded from the calculation of interracial inequality in consumption, the latter increases by only seven percentage points, showing that inequality between whites and non-whites is not influenced to a large extent by the data collection method.…”