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blanqueamiento

blanqueamiento 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.

Noun

blanqueamiento (uncountable)

  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.
    • 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 of blanqueamiento

Borrowed from Spanish blanqueamiento.

Questions about blanqueamiento

What does blanqueamiento mean?
Blanqueamiento means 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.
What part of speech is blanqueamiento?
Blanqueamiento is a noun.

Words near blanqueamiento in the dictionary

  1. Blankville
  2. blanky
  3. Blann
  4. Blanns
  5. Blanpain
  6. blanqueamiento
  7. blanquet
  8. blanquets
  9. blanquette
  10. blanquettes
  11. blanquillo

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