Race Versus Class Association

The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1850-1900

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ID3603041
AutoresGeorge Reid-Andrews (0000-0002-5510-2456, autor correspondente), George Reid Andrews
Ano1979
Volume11
Fascículo1
Páginas19-39
Data de publicação1979-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x00022288
OpenAlexW2097280630
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas13

Fundamental to an understanding of the complex relationships between race and social class in Latin America is an understanding of the process by which the caste societies of the colonial and early national periods were gradually transformed into the class societies of the twentieth century. During the 1850s a number of South American nations struck down the last vestiges of their slave regimes and the colonialRégimen de castas, legislation designed to divide society into racial castes arranged in a well-defined hierarchy. Among these countries were Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay delayed until later in the century. These developments seem at first glance to have paved the way for the integration of the non-whites as fully-fledged participants in the continent' newly formed class societies, as several authors writing on the Afro-Latin Americans have concluded

Caste · Class (philosophy) · Colonialism · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Hierarchy · Latin Americans · Legislation · Political science · Race (biology) · Racial hierarchy · Social class · Sociology · Argentine historical studies · Gender Studies · History · History and Politics in Latin America · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America