The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil : Making Sense of Social Policy as Reparations /

The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil : Making Sense of Social Policy as Reparations /

The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil offers a radical departure by pivoting quotidian encounters of the historically oppressed 'black racialised underclass' within South Africa's and Brazil's social policy architectures that have been shaped by transhistorical traj...

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Main Author: Phiri, Madalitso (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Series: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 337/35.

Subjects:

African Studies.
American Studies.
Comparative Social Sciences.
Critical Social Sciences.
Global Studies.
History.
Social Sciences.
Latin America.

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • 6 Introduction: the Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil
  • 1 Racial Capitalism as an Analytic in Global Debates on Anti-Black Racism
  • 2 Historical Sociology of South Africa's and Brazil's Hierarchical Social Citizenships
  • 3 On Racial Strivings and Divergent Experiences of Wealth and Inequality in South Africa and Brazil
  • 4 Social Assistance, Poverty, Inequality in South Africa and Brazil
  • 5 Organisation of the Book
  • 6 Note on Methodology and Race in the Comparative Study of South Africa and Brazil
  • 7 Racial Capitalism in the Making of South African and Brazilian Social Policies: Distribution of Cumulative Advantages and Disadvantages
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Slave Labour, Philanthropy and the Institutionalisation of Unequal Social Welfare in South Africa
  • 3 Social Policy and the Struggle for South Africa's Liberation
  • 4 Slavery and Rudimentary Welfare in Colonial Brazil
  • 5 Brazilian Republicanism, Vargas and Social Policy
  • 6 South Africa and Brazil's Historical Foundations of Social Policy in Comparative Perspective
  • 8 The Political Economy of Contemporary Racialised Welfare in South Africa and Brazil: Reparative Social Policy
  • 1 Race and the Political Economy of Social Assistance in South Africa-from Apartheid to Democracy
  • 2 Racialised Designs and Ideas of South Africa's Social Policy Architecture in the Democratic Dispensation
  • 3 The Political Economy of Racialised Social Welfare in Brazil: Reversal of Fortunes?
  • 4 Poverty, Inequality, Racial Stratification and Social Exclusion under Progressive Reforms
  • 5 Conclusion
  • 9 Bread, Land and Humanity in South Africa's and Brazil's Social Policies: towards Repair
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Cartography of Racialised Hunger and Social Exclusion in South Africa
  • 3 Work and Humanity in South Africa's Social Policy Aspirations
  • 4 Is There a Cartography of Racialised Hunger in Brazil?
  • 5 Social Assistance and the Quest for Decent Work in Brazil
  • 6 Conclusion: Race and Poverty in South Africa and Brazil's Hierarchical Social Policy Imaginaries
  • 10 Inequalities of Income and Wealth in South Africa's and Brazil's Social Policy Architectures
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Macroeconomic Uncertainties and Income Distribution in South Africa
  • 3 Wealth Redistribution and Social Assistance in South Africa's Social Policy Regime
  • 4 Macroeconomic Shocks, Income Inequality and Social Assistance in Brazil
  • 5 Wealth Distribution and Social Assistance in Brazil
  • 6 Comparative Perspectives of Inequality of Opportunity and Outcomes in South Africa and Brazil
  • Epilogue: the Idea of Social Policy as Reparations
  • References
  • Index.