Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States

Daniel, G. Reginald

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“…8 The large sample size allows for a fine-grained analysis of social mobility by skin color. 5 A separate case in Latin America is Brazil, where the relationship between skin color and ethnoracial stratification is widely acknowledged, data on skin color and other phenotypic characteristics are officially collected, and the academic and political debates on racial stratification have led to policies of affirmative action (Bailey 2009;Daniel 2006;Schwartzman 2007). 6 In Spanish, Encuesta de Movilidad Social 2015.…”

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Skin Color and Social Mobility: Evidence From Mexico

Campos-Vázquez

Medina-Cortina

2018

Demography

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In many Latin American countries, census data on race and skin color are scarce or nonexistent. In this study, we contribute to understanding how skin color affects intergenerational social mobility in Mexico. Using a novel data set, we provide evidence of profound social stratification by skin color, even after controlling for specific individual characteristics that previous work has not been able to include, such as individual cognitive and noncognitive abilities, parental education and wealth, and measures of stress and parenting style in the home of origin. Results indicate that people in the lightest skin color category have an average of 1.4 additional years of schooling and 53 % more in hourly earnings than their darkest-skinned counterparts. Social mobility is also related to skin color. Individuals in the darkest category are 20 percentile ranks lower in the current wealth distribution than those in the lightest category, conditional on parental wealth. In addition, results of a quantile regression indicate that the darkest group shows higher downward mobility.

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Section: Data and Descriptive Statisticsmentioning

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Skin Color and Social Mobility: Evidence From Mexico

Campos-Vázquez

Medina-Cortina

2018

Demography

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“…The significance of immigration and transnational processes for Afro-Latinxs means that their families are located at the intersections of racial systems that although similar along some dimensions differ among others (Daniel 2006;Skidmore 1993). In Latin America, racial categorization is less rigid and determined by appearance rather than ancestry.…”

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Out of the Shadows, into the Dark: Ethnoracial Dissonance and Identity Formation among Afro-Latinxs

Hordge-Freeman

Veras

2019

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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A 2016 Pew report reported that 24 percent of Hispanics identify as Afro-Latinxs, but researchers know very little about the significance of Afro-Latinx identity and how it develops. Using survey data administered to 94 self-identified Afro-Latinxs and in-depth interviews with selected survey respondents, the authors examine the socialization experiences that shape their identity formation. The authors illustrate that Afro-Latinx identity formation rarely occurred as a result of racial affirmation from families (as observed for other Black-identified groups in the United States). In the context of their families, Afro-Latinxs report the normalization of colorism and consistently negative appraisals of “black” racialized features (skin, hair, and facial features), silence about race and racism, and the encouragement of Latinx ethnicity contrasted with the stigmatization of blackness. Afro-Latinxs’ early racial socialization is marked by ethnoracial dissonance: a feeling of disidentification with, and from, racial schemas made available to them. Most respondents report that this dissonance is punctuated in secondary school and rarely reconciled through familial experiences. However, college experiences and participation in online communities ultimately exposed them to the history of the African diaspora, introduced them to the term Afro-Latinx, and offered alternative constructions of blackness that led them to adopt an Afro-Latinx identity.

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“…Racial categories in Latin America are defined by extremely blurred social boundaries. In Afro-Latin American countries such as Brazil, for example, individuals are classified into multiple categories along a whiteblack continuum based largely on perceptions of skin color (Bailey 2009;Daniel 2006;Nobles 2000;Telles 2004). Due to the subjective nature of judgments about physical appearance, these racial categories are characterized by a high degree of ambiguity.…”

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Ethnic Identification and Its Consequences for Measuring Inequality in Mexico

Villarreal

2014

Am Sociol Rev

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This paper examines ethnic boundary crossing and its impact on estimates of ethnic disparities in children’s outcomes in the specific context of Mexico, a country with the largest indigenous population in the Western hemisphere. The boundary that separates the indigenous and non-indigenous population is known to be extremely fluid as it is based on characteristics that can easily change within a generation such as language use, cultural practices and a subjective sense of belonging. Using data from the Mexican census I examine the ethnic classification of children of indigenous parents. I find that movement across the ethnic boundary depends on which of the two criteria currently recognized by the Mexican census is used. Children of indigenous parents are much less likely to be classified as indigenous according to language proficiency, especially when their parents have higher levels of education. By contrast, when proxy self-identification is used as a criterion, children of indigenous parents are more likely to be classified as indigenous, and greater parental education actually results in higher odds that children will be classified as indigenous. The shift in children’s indigenous classification with parental education is found to strongly affect estimates of educational disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous children.

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Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States

Cited by 56 publications

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Skin Color and Social Mobility: Evidence From Mexico

Skin Color and Social Mobility: Evidence From Mexico

Out of the Shadows, into the Dark: Ethnoracial Dissonance and Identity Formation among Afro-Latinxs

Ethnic Identification and Its Consequences for Measuring Inequality in Mexico

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