blanqueamiento

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish blanqueamiento.

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

Coordinate terms

Spanish

Etymology

From blanquear +‎ -miento.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /blankeaˈmjento/ [blãŋ.ke.aˈmjẽn̪.t̪o]
  • Rhymes: -ento
  • Syllabification: blan‧que‧a‧mien‧to

Noun

blanqueamiento m (plural blanqueamientos)

  1. whitening, whitewashing, bleaching (the process of making something white or whiter)
    Synonym: blanqueo
  2. whitewashing (a deliberate attempt to conceal unpleasant or incriminating facts about a person or organization in order to protect their reputation)
  3. money laundering (the act of engaging in transactions designed to obscure the origin of money)
  4. (chocolate) bloom
  5. Racial blanqueamiento.

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