racial whitening (Q7279598)
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ideology, popular in Brazil in 1889–1914, holding that the Black race would advance culturally and genetically or even disappear totally within several generations of mixed breeding with White people
- whitening
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | racial whitening |
ideology, popular in Brazil in 1889–1914, holding that the Black race would advance culturally and genetically or even disappear totally within several generations of mixed breeding with White people |
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Redenção.jpg
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A Redenção de Cam (Redemption of Ham), Modesto Brocos, 1895, Museu Nacional de Belas Artes. The painting depicts a black grandmother, mulatta mother, white father and their quadroon child, hence three generations of racial hypergamy though whitening. (English)
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- enwiki Racial politics in Brazil