To analyze the current role of the whitening process and the miscegenation ideology, this article uses an academic and a state authorities' speech made during the first preparatory event for the 500-year celebration - The History and Culture International Forum - in the south of Bahia, being the seminar analyzed here called The Peoples of Brazil's Formation (Indian, African and European nations). There is an attempt to show how other authors see the relationship between mixed races and a whitening process, both seen here as part of one same side, and how these relations are going through a period of renewal and refinement to, in spite of this, continue being the bottom line of Brazilian oppressive racial system. Through different points of view, from intellectuals, from members of Bahia's government and from universities involved in the forum about miscegenation, it is analyzed new forms to put it in the center of the nation's representativity in a positive and non-critical way, which results in the reinforcement of (disguised or non-consciously) whitening ideas.
miscegenation; social relations; national identity