Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Racial whitening, or \"whitening\" (branqueamento), is an ideology that was widely accepted in Brazil between 1889 and 1914, as the solution to the \"Negro problem.\" Supporters of the Whitening ideology believed that the Negro race would advance culturally and genetically, or even disappear totally, within several generations of mixed breeding between whites and blacks. This ideology gained its support from two scientific racism beliefs that were prominent during this time. One being social Darwinism, which applied Darwin's theory of natural selection to a society or race, and the other being Aryanism, the belief that the \"white\" Aryan race was superior to all other cultures. By combining these two ideas, the white elites of the time believed that because \"white\" blood was superior it would inevitably \"whiten\" the inferior races' blood."@en }
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- Racial_whitening abstract "Racial whitening, or \"whitening\" (branqueamento), is an ideology that was widely accepted in Brazil between 1889 and 1914, as the solution to the \"Negro problem.\" Supporters of the Whitening ideology believed that the Negro race would advance culturally and genetically, or even disappear totally, within several generations of mixed breeding between whites and blacks. This ideology gained its support from two scientific racism beliefs that were prominent during this time. One being social Darwinism, which applied Darwin's theory of natural selection to a society or race, and the other being Aryanism, the belief that the \"white\" Aryan race was superior to all other cultures. By combining these two ideas, the white elites of the time believed that because \"white\" blood was superior it would inevitably \"whiten\" the inferior races' blood.".