Brief description

This seminar initially draws from the project “Inequality and differences in Brazil from an ethnic-racial perspective: the indigenous and quilombolas’s case” build upon a research partnership of Cebrap and Christian Aid. Is pursues the goal to promote the debate of theoretical and methodological aspects encompassing the challenge of (re)map the discussion on inequality in Brazil when the perspective of the indigenous and quilombola population is added. The challenge comprises, first the addition of an approach that, if in a first overview seems ethnocentric, is totally justified by the recent process of migration and urbanization that have been part of those populations lives, followed by the recent expansion of social policies, as education and the overcome of poverty, to them. The assumption is that problems found on researchers concerning the living conditions of the indigenous and quilombola populations can be enriched – as much as can enrich – by researches whose focus are theoretically, on the relation between inequalities and diversity, economy, politics and culture; or methodological on the use of mixed methods and multilevel researches.

Organizers:  José Maurício Arruti (Unicamp); Marta Maria Azevedo (Unicamp); Monika Dowbor (CEM/Cebrap) and Thais Tartalha Lombardi (CEM/Cebrap)