Search

    Start Over Format Journal Article Subject Term Ecuador Language English

    1. Racial inequality in the Uruguayan labor market: an analysis of wage differentials between Afro-descendants and whites

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Bucheli,Marisa (Author) and Porzecanski,Rafael (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2011
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Latin American politics and society
    Journal Title Details:
    53(2) : 113-150
    Notes:
    Latin America is a region of sharp ethnic inequalities. Uruguay has usually been considered an exception to this pattern, although no data were available to confirm this assumption until recently. This article uses the Household Survey of 2006 to analyze the wage gap between Afro-descendants and whites through ordinary least square(OLS)equations, decompositions, and quantile regressions. The analysis finds that discrimination explains approximately 50 percent of the racial wage gap for men and 20 percent for women. Discrimination operates partly through occupational segregation. Differences in schooling are the most important explanatory factor for the rest of the gap. Quantile regressions show that discrimination declines across percentiles for men.

    2. Schooling as a regime of equality and reproducing difference in an Afro-Ecuadorian region

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Johnson,Ethan (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2009 June
    Published:
    United Kingdom: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Ethnography and Education
    Journal Title Details:
    4(2) : 147-164
    Notes:
    Compares curricular, ceremonial and pedagogical practices with how students and teachers make sense of racial identity and discrimination at the Jaime Hurtado Academy in the city and province of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, which is the only region of the nation where Afro-Ecuadorian people comprise a majority of the population. Finds that schooling was structured as a regime of equality, where social science textbooks make invisible the concepts of race and Blackness while school ceremonies enforced membership to the nation. Shows through an examination of how students and teachers make sense of racial identity and discrimination that race was a significant factor shaping teaching and learning at the research site and argue that schooling practices are implicated in this process by attempting to submerge racial and cultural differences.