Brazil National Identity

The Brazilian national identity has been shaped by a series of Government supported projects and efforts that sought to modernize and whiten Brazil. These projects attempted to whiten by distancing Brazil from their African ancestry. Between 1890 and 1914, the Brazilian government implemented immigration policies that attempted to de-Africanize the country. In order to de-Africanize Brazil, the government promoted European immigration. During this period, immigration policies were adopted to whiten Brazil’s population by changing the labor force from black to white labor. This form of whitening was accomplished by establishing immigration policies that not only favored the immigration of Europeans to Brazil, but also subsidized their travel