(Q7279598)

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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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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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