Introduction
Part I: Political Participation
Chapter 1 - Political Participation in Brazil
Chapter 2 - Councils, Associations, and Inequality
Part II - Education and Income
Chapter 3 - Educational Stratification Among Youth in Brazil: 1960-2010
Chapter 4 - Education and Inequality in Brazil
Chapter 5 - Horizontal Stratification in Brazil's Higher Education (1960-2010)
Chapter 6 - Racial Inequalities in Brazil: A Persistent Challenge
Part III - Public Policies
Chapter 7 - The Geography of Access to Basic Services in Brazil
Chapter 8 - Housing and Urban Conditions in Brazil
Chapter 9 - Health and Inequalities in Brazil
Part IV - Demographics
Chapter 10 - Brazil's Internal Migration Over the Past 50 Years: (Dis)continuities and Ruptures
Chapter 11 - Fifty Years of Gender Relations and Generation in Brazil: Changes and Continuities Chapter 12 - Religious Transition in Brazil
Part V - Labor Market
Chapter 13 - Economic Development and Inequalities in Brazil: 1960-2010
Chapter 14 - Commodification of Labor in Brazil's Labor Market] (1960-2010)
Conclusion: A Half-Century of Change
About the Author: Marta Arretche is Director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies, full professor of the Department of Political Science and Vice-provost for research at the University of São Paulo (USP). She holds a PhD in Social Science by the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and was a visiting fellow at the MIT and at the European University Institute. She is currently the editor-in-chief of the journal Brazilian Political Science Review.