Conclusion: Whiteness of a Darker Color

Abstract

I take the title of the conclusion of my book from Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race by Matthew Frye Jacobson. Whiteness in South America had its own developments and was as intensely debated as in the United States. In general, comparison with the United States limits the consideration of race in Latin America or, in this case, Argentina and Brazil. For this reason, I have approached the idea of racial democracies from an endogenous perspective—by incorporating all groups in the Brazilian or Argentine population relative to each other, rather than using the United States as the measure of comparison—in hopes of questioning and contributing to existing scholarship.