Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/307443 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para Discussão No. 3060
Publisher: 
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília
Abstract (Translated): 
This text presents a brief discussion on the ways in which racism spreads in Brazil, and on the reasons that make racial discrimination an extremely serious problem with implications for health, the economy, general well-being and democracy in our country. Recently, literature has treated racism as a social but also infectious disease, which would occur concomitantly with its structural nature, in the Brazilian case. With the use of very exploratory SIR models (Susceptible/Infected/Recovered), it was possible to construct scenarios in which, depending on the hypotheses about the data regarding racism, and in the absence of effective action by the Brazilian State, this social scourge could afflict us for a long time, maybe indefinitely.
Subjects: 
racism
economics
public health
SIR models
social media
JEL: 
C69
I14
J15
J71
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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