Explore the Brocos and his support for eugenics of this artwork, Ham's Redemption.
Modesto Brocos never denied his support for eugenics theories. In 1930, thirty-five years after painting, the artist released a work of science fiction, Viaje a Marte ("Trip to Mars"). In it, the painter himself appears as a character who recounts his visit on a planet where there is a policy of reproduction controlled by the state - the Agricultural Army and the Humanitarian Sisters - all white volunteers. Even though it is a book of fiction, Brocos makes explicit his eugenic and racist ideas when, in one of the excerpts of the work, he says that humanity was not satisfied, because there still had to be a "unification of races". He adds that in earlier times, with the "yellow" race, mestizaje had been easier, but that with the black race, although there was the same process, the color "presented difficulties to be mixed."
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