blanqueamiento

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noun

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.

OriginSpanish blanqueamiento →
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Meanings

nounblanqueamiento (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe 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.

    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.

    2022 October 12, José Rivers Alfaro, Something More Splendid Than Two, punctum books, →ISBN, page 84

Origin

  1. Spanishblanqueamiento
  2. Englishblanqueamiento

Borrowed from Spanish blanqueamiento.

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Chicago

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