“A introdução de raças differentes deformando o typo que deve prevalecer”: a raça amarela no Boletim de Eugenía (1929-1933)

Abstract

This monography aims to analyze the presence of eugenic discourse in Brazilian society in relation to the racial issue, focusing, in particular, the yellow race from the analysis of the Boletim de Eugenía in the period between 1929 and 1933, time frame of the periodical's existence. The development of racial discrimination against yellow people, in this study, of Chinese and Japanese ethnicity, went through scientific, intellectual and political discussions during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Therefore, the writing of this research was mobilized by the question of how race is socially constructed for Chinese and Japanese and how the discourse around these agents was constructed in history. For this reason, we analyze racial theories, conceived by European ideologists, that were reconfigured in light of the national reality, and which justified proposals and implementations of eugenic measures against the population. Ergo, the main analysis is related to the way in which eugenics was designed to resolve national problems that, it was understood, made the nation's progress and modernization impossible, thus contributing to bringing the history of Chinese and Japanese immigration closer to the history of medicine, studies of racial relations and the field of post-abolition.