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Gender, race and class in Brazil: the effects of structural and institutional racism on the lives of the black population during the covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

The research aims to analyze statistical data concerning racial inequality in Brazil during the Covid 19 pandemic period. In this regard, its object is the unfolding of the pandemic for the deepening of social asymmetries between blacks and non-blacks. Depending on the variables gender, race, class and region. For methodology, it adopts the literature review on the subject in question and with emphasis on the theoretical-methodological perspective of black feminism. As well, it focuses on the qualitative analysis of the main indicators of social vulnerability according to the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) and the Continuous Annual Household Sample Survey (PNAD) between (2015-2020). It also notes the budget line allocated by the Executive Branch to the Ministry of Health (2018-2021) to mitigate the effects of covid-19 in the country. The hypotheses of this research fall on the deepening of racial dissymmetries during the pandemic from the cut of race/color, class, gender and regional origin. Then, the current management of the Executive Branch would have played a fundamental role in the proportion of deaths affected by the covid-19 virus. In short, the research ends up reflecting on the data of social inequality funneled under the pandemic context and its impacts on the aforementioned identity minorities, as well as the inaction of the State in the design of public policies.

Keywords:
Woman; Black; Brazil; Pandemic; Inequality

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