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"Contínuo Racial, Mobilidade Social E "Embranquecimento

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ID5804328
AuthorsCarlos A Costa Ribeiro (0000-0002-9031-4665, Tellabs (Canada), corresponding author), Carlos Ribeiro (0000-0001-7492-1425)
Year2018
Volume32
Issue95
Pages1-25
Publication date2018-08-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-6909 • E-ISSN: 1806-9053
PublisherNational Association of Post-Graduate Research in Social Sciences (PUBLISHER • BR)
DOI10.17666/329503/2017
OpenAlexW2775551674
LanguageES
Citations received11
References cited26

Although for a long time research on race in Brazil recognizes that racial categories are based on skin color distinctions along a black-white continuum, quantitative evidence on racial inequality is mostly based on the white versus non-white (brown and black) dichotomy or on the threefold categorization (white, brown and black). This way of using the variable helped to show the high levels of racial inequality. This finding, however, have always been questioned because of another aspect: the high ambiguity in racial classification and the possibility of "whitening" with money or with upward mobility. If this last feature is true, it is difficult to measure in a reliable way racial inequality. To deals directly with this dilemma I measure the "skin color continuum" combining answers to an open (respondents free choice) and to a closed (census categories) question about skin color. I implement counterfactual simulations to access the possible effects of "whitening with money" on educational, occupational and earnings attainment

Ambiguity · Categorization · Counterfactual thinking · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Ethnic group · Inequality · Race (biology) · Racial differences · Racism · Skin color · Sociology · White (mutation · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Economic Development in India · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works11
Citations per year1,38
Citation span2018 - 2024 (7)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 11
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