scientific diffusion Seminars and Agenda International event on Social Inequality and Inclusion in Contemporary Brazil congregates international and Brazilian organizations
International event on Social Inequality and Inclusion in Contemporary Brazil congregates international and Brazilian organizations
UT-FAPESP PROJECT
WORKSHOP
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
Social Inequality and Inclusion in Contemporary Brazil
Brazil is home to the second-largest Afro-descendant population in the world. While the country’s racial inequalities have long been documented, Brazil’s social landscape has changed enormously in recent years.
In 2010, Brazil became the only minority-majority nation in the Americas. A comprehensive collection of race-based affirmative action policies, combined with a broad set of social policies, has been implemented in the last fifteen years. These changes raise important questions for how the treatment of racial inequalities has unfolded in the Brazilian context: What are the current levels of inequality among the white, brown, and black populations in Brazil? How can we understand the persistence of racial disparities? How does race classification take place in Brazil? How do affirmative action policies work in Brazil?
The “Race Inequality in Brazil” workshop assembles experts on racial inequality in Brazil and will be an opportunity to reflect on and debate important questions facing Brazil and Brazilians of all races.
Tuesday, October 13
Internal Project Discussion: 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m.
Lunch: 1–2:45 p.m.
Opening Remarks: 3–3:30 p.m.
Letícia Marteleto (UT Austin)
Nadya Araujo Guimarães (USP/DS and CEM/Cebrap)
Section 1: 3:30–5 p.m.
Social Inclusion through Education in Contemporary Brazil: Trends, Politics and Policies
Inequalities in Educational Transitions
Murillo Marschner Alves de Brito (PUC-Rio and CEM/Cebrap)
Social Inclusion and Intra-school Dynamics
Charles Kirschbaum (Insper and Cebrap/CEM)
Social Inclusion in Brazilian Universities: The Case of UFBA
Antonio Sérgio Guimarães (USP/DS and CEM/Cebrap)
Wednesday, October 14
Section 2: 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
School to Work Transitions in the Brazilian Context
Youth Transitions to the Labor Market
Nadya Araujo Guimarães (USP/DS and CEM/Cebrap)
Demographic Components and Youth Transitions to the Labor Market
Letícia Marteleto (UT-Austin) & Aida Villanueva (UT-Austin)
From Work Back to School: Returning to School in Brazil
Álvaro Comin (USP/DS and CEM/Cebrap)
(Dis)connections in the Relationship between School Credentials and Work: A Comparative Perspective
Flávio Carvalhaes (UFRJ), Luciana Leão (Columbia University,) Thomas DiPrete (Columbia University)
Lunch: 12:30–14h
Section 3: 2:00–4:30 p.m.
Migration, Minorities, and Attainment Inequality in Brazil
A Comparison of the Socioeconomic Attainments of Japanese-Brazilians and Japanese-Americans
Art Sakamoto (TAMU)
Migration and Intergenerational Transmission of Socio-economic Status in Brazil
Jorge Alexandre Neves (UFMG)
The Influence of Internal Migration on Male Earnings in Brazil, 1970–2000
Joe Potter (UT Austin)
