<P> The ideas of the Central Committee on Eugenics clashed with the Whitening Policies of the beginning of the 20th century . While the Whitening Policies advocated miscegenation in order to reduce the numbers of pure Africans in Brazil in favor of mulattos, who were expected to then produce white off - spring - a policy very similar to the "uplifting the Native race" in Australia - the Central Committee on Eugenics advocated no miscegenation at all and separation between the whites and non-whites in Brazil . When it became obvious that the future of Brazil was in industrialization (just as it was for other countries around the world), Brazil had to face whether they had a working force capable of being absorbed by an industrial society . </P> <P> A new ideology was needed to counter such racialist claims . This ideology, known as Lusotropicalism, was associated with Gilberto Freyre, and became popular throughout the Portuguese Empire: specifically, Brazil and Angola . Lusotropicalism claimed that its large population of mixed - race people made Brazil the most capable country in tropical climates to carry out a program of industrialization . Its mixed race population had the cultural and intellectual capabilities provided by the white race, which could not work in tropical climates, combined with the physical ability to work in tropical climates, provided by the African black race . This excluded the fact that white prisoners, working under penal servitude in Puerto Rico, seemed quite capable of working in a tropical environment . </P> <P> In the first decades of the twentieth century, the work of the Rockefeller Foundation was decisive for the implementation of public health initiatives in Brazil, especially in the so - called public health movement . At that time, Brazilian eugenics was the same as public health, as expressed in the maxim "to sanitize is to eugenize". </P> <P> In Canada, the eugenics movement gained support early in the 20th century as prominent physicians drew a direct link between heredity and public health . Eugenics was enforced by law in two Canadian provinces . In Alberta, the Sexual Sterilization Act was enacted in 1928, focusing the movement on the sterilization of mentally deficient individuals, as determined by the Alberta Eugenics Board . The campaign to enforce this action was backed by groups such as the United Farm Women's Group, including key member Emily Murphy . </P>

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