Los estudios afrodescendientes en Argentina

Nuevas perspectivas y desafíos en un país «sin razas

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ID3064258
AuthorsE Lamborghini (0000-0001-6721-8408, corresponding author), Lea Geler (0000-0001-6619-0001), Florencia Guzmán (0000-0003-2263-148X)
Year2017
Issue27
Pages69-101
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTabula rasa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1794-2489 • E-ISSN: 2011-2742
PublisherColegio Mayor de Cundinamarca (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.25058/20112742.445
OpenAlexW2793672623
LanguageES
Citations received13
References cited3

In Argentina, the narratives of whiteness and Europeanness, along with the discourse of Afro-Argentinean “disappearance” helped institute a myth of origin of the nation, whose effects remain. In the last few decades, however, the renewal and consolidation of an interdisciplinary field of studies and reflection on Afro-descendence has been fed by and helped to “revisibilizing” and (re)acknowledge a population group previously invisibilized and marginalized. In this paper, we will review the advances and challenges of the studies on African descent in Argentina, distinguishing several challenging fields and highlighting contributions, debates, and gaps. We will examine a new angle of the studies of racialized categories during the Colony and the Republican era, in the first place, and during the consolidation of modern State up to the present time, next. Finally, we will account for approaches on political movements, migrations and performative resignifications. This overview challenges the supposedly “novel” place of this field of studies and its particularities in a country typically considered as “raceless”

Art · Humanities · Political science · Argentine historical studies · Cuban History and Society · Indigenous Cultures and History

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