Describing Skin Color in Contemporary Brazil

Stéphanie Cassilde ()
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Stéphanie Cassilde: CERDI - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement International - UCA [2017-2020] - Université Clermont Auvergne [2017-2020] - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: It is well established in the literature that the popular saying "money whitens" is a strong mechanism of skin color declarations in Brazil. But this focus on socio-economic incentives and lightening excludes to some extent other incentives, darkening and chromatic immobility. Moreover, self-declarations are much more stigmatized than declarations by a third. In this article I construct a chromatic mobility model, where mobility is realized by a third-person in relation to the self-perception of the described person. The empirical application (econometrics and qualitative analysis) relies on original data collected during a field research conducted in São Paulo (2006 – 2007).

Keywords: Chromatic Mobility; declaration; skin color; race; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-04-14
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Published in 6th International Student Conference - Empirical Studies in Social Sciences, Izmir University of Economics, Apr 2010, Izmir, Turkey

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