Race and the marriage market in Belo Horizonte : does race matter?

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dc.contributor.advisorBuckley, Cynthia
dc.creatorHarvey, Todd William, 1980-
dc.date.accessioned2017-02-24T20:18:18Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-01-22T22:31:42Z
dc.date.available2017-02-24T20:18:18Z
dc.date.available2018-01-22T22:31:42Z
dc.date.issued2007-05
dc.description.abstractThis thesis analyzes the processes and outcomes of the marriage market in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, and how these processes and outcomes differ along racial lines. Due to Brazil's history of claiming the "racial democracy" myth, the importance of race in interpersonal relationships has been stifled in popular discourse. However, the racial democracy discourse has gendered, racial, and sexualized implications for interpersonal relationships. Using qualitative techniques I explore the coded ways in which women talk about race on the marriage market and their perceptions of matching couples through focus group data gathered in July 2006. I also utilize quantitative data from the 2002 Belo Horizonte Area Survey to provide a description of the outcomes of the marriage market in Belo Horizonte.en_US
dc.description.departmentSociologyen_US
dc.format.mediumelectronicen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.15781/T2VQ2SG13
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/45780
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofUT Electronic Theses and Dissertationsen_US
dc.rightsCopyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.en_US
dc.rights.restrictionRestricteden_US
dc.subjectMarriageen_US
dc.subjectBelo Horizonte, Brazilen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.titleRace and the marriage market in Belo Horizonte : does race matter?en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US

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