%0 Journal Article
%T Race, Gender, and Social Class Discrimination in Intersection with Political Identification in Rio de Janeiro
%A Cristina Gomes
%J Sociology Mind
%P 157-174
%@ 2160-0848
%D 2022
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/sm.2022.124011
%X This article discusses the prejudices and discrimination
against afro-descendants,</span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> women, LGBTQ persons, the homeless, immigrants, and
young adults, considering class, religion, and political differences within the
population of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. These types of discrimination
are analyzed through the intersectionality approach using a concept named </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">¡°</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">discrimination
relational matrix of analysis</span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">¡±.</span></span></span><span><span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> In a
two-phase design of a representative sample 759 urban inhabitants answered a
questionnaire asking for their perceptions, attitudes, practices, and
intergroup relationships on racism, patriarchalism, sexism, homophobia,
xenophobia, and self-identification within different social classes, religions,
and political-ideological identifications; correlations and a statistical model
of Principal Component Analysis was applied to explore the main factors of
discrimination. Analysis results show </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">how
explicit and several kinds of masked discrimination are connected, spread</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">, </span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">normalized and popularized through
apparently liberal and democratic speeches,</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> and ambiguous attitudes and
practices according to different interests be</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">tween
ingroups and outgroups in an environment of competition for resources</span> <span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">and historic cultural settings of conservatism,
patriarchalism and social classes</span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"> prejudices, attached mainly to poverty
and low educational levels</span></span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">. </span></span></span><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">They also highlight a
%K Racism
%K Discrimination
%K Gender
%K Social Class
%K Political Identification
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=120622