We examine the impact of class and racial discrimination on Afro-descendant women social welfare beneficiaries in Brazil and the USA. We focus on the cities Salvador, São Paulo, Charlotte, and Milwaukee. We find that in all these cities, more than a majority of social welfare beneficiaries ate dark skinned thus showing that both countries are pigmentocracies where disadvantage is based on skin color, class, and gender. We find that of those admitting they experienced skin color discrimination more than a majority ate dark skinned. Women in the USA are generally more likely to acknowledge skin color discrimination while women in Brazil are more likely to acknowledge class based discrimination.

我们研究了阶级和种族歧视对非洲和非洲裔女性社会福利受益人的影响。我们专注于萨尔瓦多，圣保罗，夏洛特和密尔沃基等城市。我们发现，在所有这些城市中，大多数社会福利受益人都吃了黑皮肤，因此表明这两个国家都是色素沉着症，其劣势是基于肤色，阶级和性别的。我们发现那些承认自己遭受肤色歧视的人比大多数人吃深色皮肤的人要多。在美国，女性通常更可能承认肤色歧视，而在巴西，女性更可能承认基于阶级的歧视。