Racial Inequality in the Twenty-first Century
A Comparative Analysis between Brazil and the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21549262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonio Albano De Freitas (0000-0002-1473-8626, New School for Social Research, New York, NY, USA, corresponding author), Alessandro Miebach (0000-0001-6619-2082, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 190-217 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Radical Political Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0486-6134 • E-ISSN: 1552-8502 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/04866134211062936 |
| OpenAlex | W4285407919 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
This article presents a set of comparative data related to racial inequality in the United States and Brazil throughout the twenty-first century. Within the limitations of available data, we highlight four limited but important dimensions, that is, demography, education, the labor market, and earnings that illustrate racial inequality in both countries. In doing so, we aim to investigate and critically update Andrews’s work (1992) on the last three decades with available data. Despite some improvements in absolute terms related to racial inequities, we show that in both Brazil and the United States, economic growth periods do not necessarily mean that income among blacks is catching up with that of whites. Similarly, in both countries, economic crisis and recovery phases are experienced differently depending on the individual’s race. JEL Classification: D31, D63, J7, J15
Demographic economics · Development economics · Earnings · Economic inequality · Economics · Inequality · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |