Abstract

BLANCO BOSCO, Emilio Ernesto. Ethnic-racial Discrimination and Educational Opportunities in Mexico. Sociológica (Méx.) [online]. 2020, vol.35, n.101, pp.139-180.  Epub Sep 13, 2021. ISSN 2007-8358.

Regression models on educational opportunities are used to estimate the effects of: 1) speaking an indigenous language; 2) identification with an indigenous ethnic group; and 3) skin color. Data from the Intergenerational Social Mobility Module of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography are used. In a general way, every negatively ethno-racialized attributes was found to reduce educational opportunities. Some of these effects are higher for the highest socioeconomic strata and for women. Finally, a reduction in disadvantages associated with language and identity was found for recent decades, but the disadvantage associated with skin color is persistent.

Keywords : inequality of educational opportunity; educational achievement; ethno-racial discrimination; educational transitions; pigmentocracy; gender inequality; linear and logistic models.

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