Blanqueamiento
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Blanqueamiento, branqueamento, or whitening, is a social, political, and economic practice used in many post-colonial countries to "improve the race" (mejorar la raza) towards a supposed ideal of whiteness.
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See also
- Casta
- Colonial mentality
- Coloniality of power
- Creole peoples
- Discrimination based on skin color
- History of eugenics
- Hypergamy
- Peter Wade, anthropologist who specialises in race issues in Latin America
- Race and ethnicity in Latin America
- Racial passing
- Racial whitening
- Racism in South America
- Stolen Generations – similar event in Australia, forced by its government
- White Latin Americans
- Whiteness studies
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