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Unit 5
Grades 9-10
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The Myth of Racial Democracy: Freyre, Vasconcelos, and the 'Cosmic Race'

By the early twentieth century, a different intellectual movement emerged across Latin America, one that did not try to change a nation's population through immigration, but instead tried to change the story that nation told about the mixed-race population it already had. Rather…

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