Racial Inequality in the Twenty-first Century: A Comparative Analysis between Brazil and the United States

Antonio Freitas and Alessandro Miebach

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2022, vol. 54, issue 2, 190-217

Abstract: 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

Keywords: racial inequality; Brazil; United States; socioeconomic development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1177/04866134211062936

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