Why does the quality of public childcare services, even when they are ostensibly standardized, vary significantly across neighborhoods? I examine this using the case of …
Bethencourt, Francisco [Ed.] (2018). Inequality in the Portuguese-Speaking World: Global and Historical Perspectives. Sussex Academic Press, 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84519-846-6
Francisco Bethencourt (eds.). Inequality in the Portuguese Speaking World. Global and Historical Perspectives. Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2018. ISBN-10: 1845198468, 282 pages.
Over the past forty years, people with disabilities have experienced dramatic social change. One of the strongest indicators of their changing status is the increase …
This dissertation examines the implications of envy for the interplay between economic development, institutions, and culture. It offers a unified theoretical framework which shows how …
Chapter 1 analyzes how market forces in the retail market for pharmaceuticals affect utilization of health care. Specifically, I study the impact of Walmart’s $4 …
It is concerning that portrayals of race in the medical community are largely void of social context. According to scholars in the social sciences, race …
In polities headed by divine kings, the public performance of hierarchy and inequality is essential to political power. Yet what happens to that inequality when …
The production of diversity and its transformation into hierarchy and social inequality in the Portuguese Empire are at the core of this essay. Conversion of …
While Patisso and Carbone (2020) recently argued that slave laws in the Americas, including in Brazil, were inspired by Spanish legislation, this article demonstrates that …
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, England’s trade and empire took place in global spaces that were home to a plethora of distinct cultures, peoples, …
Konadu, Kwasi. Many Black Women of this Fortress: Graça, Mónica and Adwoa, Three Enslaved Women of Portugal’s African Empire. London: Hurst and Company, 2022.
In the 2020 presidential elections, Democratic nominees in the primaries all had proposals to advance society and do what’s “good.” Various proposals included distributive justice …
The widespread overuse of suspension and expulsion and racialized patterns of punishment have identified school discipline as a critical frontier in the struggle for educational …
Francisco Bethencourt (eds.). Inequality in the Portuguese Speaking World. Global and Historical Perspectives. Sussex: Sussex Academic Press, 2018. ISBN-10: 1845198468, 282 pages.