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2. Racial inequality in the Uruguayan labor market: an analysis of wage differentials between Afro-descendants and whites
- 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.
3. Schooling as a regime of equality and reproducing difference in an Afro-Ecuadorian region
- 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.
4. The Representation of Blackness in Murals and Statues in an Afro-Ecuadorian Region
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Johnson,Ethan (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture & Society
- Journal Title Details:
- 11(4) : 365-388
- Notes:
- When Ernesto Estupinan Quintero was elected mayor of the city of Esmeraldas, Ecuador, in 2000, he was the first self-identifying Black person to reach this position. The city of Esmeraldas is the capital of the only province of the nation where Afro-Ecuadorians are the largest racial and cultural group. Immediately upon his election, Ernesto began commissioning murals and statues that contested traditional representations of Blackness.
5. "Mãe, o que será que o negro quer?" Representações racistas na revista Vistazo, 1957-1991
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Rahier,Jean Muteba (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- January/June, 2001
- Published:
- Rio de Janeiro: Universidade Candido Mendes
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Estudos Afro-Asiaticos
- Journal Title Details:
- 23(1) : 9-28
- Notes:
- Analyzes the portrayal of blacks in the magazine Vistazo, one of the most popular publications of Ecuador, since the year of its creation in 1957 until the year 1991. Mainstains that the construction of the Ecuadorian national identity deprives humanity in representation of African-Ecuadorians in favor of appreciation and exaltation of Euro-Ecuadorians and, secondarily, the white-mestizo