Tag: poverty

Changing Dynamics of Race, Class, and Politics in Brazil and South Africa

Gay Seidman South Africa and Brazil, two of the world’s most unequal countries, both have long histories of settler colonialism and racialized dispossession, and forced labor. But when both countries finally democratized roughly three decades ago, their popular leaders approached inequality in very different ways. In South Africa, apartheid had long enshrined white minority rule, …

Poverty of the Imagination

Patrick Iber In the last decade or so, people around the world have been having a global debate about income and wealth inequality. Seventy years ago, there was a similar conversation that was focused on poverty. The issues of poverty and inequality are obviously related but not identical. (The economist Branko Milanovic tells a story …