Venezuelan whitening policy enabled the later erasure of race from national policy
Evidence
While the demographic proļ¬les differ, Venezuela represents another, complementary feature of a more generalized Latin American mode, namely, the troubled institutionalization of a policy of whitening. In the 1950s, a little later than Brazil and Argentina, for instance, Venezuelan dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez introduced the prevailing national ideal of whitening, both demographically and culturally, importing signiļ¬cant numbers of Western European immigrants. The accompanying europeanizing of local culture as the national imperative underpinned the subsequent erasure of race from explicit national reference and policy with the end of the dictatorship in 1958. This simultaneously silenced any attempt to penalize racial discrimination. ā David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1171
Categorization
- XREF: Parallels state-sponsored whitening and immigration policies in Brazil and Argentina that Goldberg discusses elsewhere in the book. ā connects to: State-imposed whitening policy erased race from national law ā David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections onā¦, 1171