Brazil’s extreme inequality in 2010 was taboo in polite discussion

Evidence

The reality was that Brazil remained one of the world’s most unequal societies—nearly as bad as South Africa had been under apartheid—and the vast chasm separating the rich and the poor was so obvious that no one ever mentioned it. Indeed, that seemed prohibited in polite society. Working people suffered from violence and relied on woefully inadequate public services. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 169

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the theme of inequality silence in the broader literature on Brazil and the World Cup/Olympics era — connects to: Brazil’s extreme inequality was so entrenched it went unmentionable in polite society — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 169; Brazil’s post-dictatorship history produced an ‘embarrassed right’ muted in 2012 — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 315; Brazilian cordial racism is a mannered, race-denying form of exclusion — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1790

Broader Connections

• Brazil’s extreme inequality was so entrenched it went unmentionable in polite society #corroborates (1.00) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 169
• Brazil’s post-dictatorship history produced an ‘embarrassed right’ muted in 2012 #expands (0.85) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 315
• Brazilian cordial racism is a mannered, race-denying form of exclusion #exemplifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1790