Blanqueamiento

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of becoming or making (racially) white, such as increasing the white population of a region, encouraging interracial marriage with white people, or enforcing white cultural norms on a population. uncountable

    "Indigenous cultural differences were erased within a Mexican identity defined by the mixed bloodline of Spanish and Indian mestizaje that praised the eventual blanqueamiento of the mestize race."

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"Indigenous cultural differences were erased within a Mexican identity defined by the mixed bloodline of Spanish and Indian mestizaje that praised the eventual blanqueamiento of the mestize race."

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish blanqueamiento.

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