El blanqueamiento de la raza. Memoria necesaria en una Venezuela mestiza

Abstract

The "whitening of the race" was a process that spread throughout Latin America. Venezuela fulfilled this project to the letter and although it did not materialize in the early days, our country continued in this search, ratifying these ideas of the whitening of the race. At the dawn of the beginning of the 20th century, some migratory norms were established, which supported the notion of purifying the race, looking for white people, whom they considered more productive, thus giving rise to a truly novel concept for this investigation, state racism. This whitening of the race constitutes a very important paradigm to know another of the social traits of our country. Some Venezuelan authors of great renown in the national literature supported these ideas such as Rufino Blanco Fombona, Arturo Uslar Pietri among others. But this social hypothesis should stop us to think that these types of policies have established in our imagination the ideas of the importance of improving the race and create an environment antagonistic to the true Venezuelan race, which is the product of miscegenation.