Where Discrimination Lives: Perceptions of Color Discrimination in Domains of Daily Life in Latin America

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Abstract

Despite mestizaje national narratives in Latin American countries emphasizing the role of classism, and minimizing the role of racism in structuring ethnoracial inequalities, studies show that individuals within Latin America perceive racial and color discrimination as operating within their society (Bailey 2004; Telles and Bailey 2013; Canache et al. 2014). Much less is known, however, about which domains of life people perceive this discrimination to be occurring. Using data from the Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA) based at Princeton University for Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Peru, this study finds that perceived discrimination is more common in the public sphere than the private sphere and gender and socioeconomic status are inconsistent determinants of perceived discrimination in the various domains.

Author

• Angela Dixon, Princeton University