Acculturation or Transculturation? The Invisibility of Afro-Argentines in the 'White' Nation

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ID3655294
AuthorsEugenia Demuro (0000-0002-1827-0143, Deakin University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume38
Issue5
Pages545-559
Publication date2017-09-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07256868.2017.1363168
OpenAlexW2761413286
LanguageEN
References cited14

This paper contests the myth of Argentina as a white-Europeanised nation by examining the invisibility of Afro-Argentines and Afro-descendants from official accounts of the nation. Rather than a process of complete acculturation and assimilation leading to the ‘disappearance’ of the Afro-Argentine population, as is the popular view, what occurred was an appropriation of contributions by Afro-Argentines into white culture. In this way, we examine the potential of transculturation as a critical concept to defy one of Argentina’s most enduring myths

Acculturation · Appropriation · Art · Biculturalism · Biology · Ethnic group · Ethnology · Invisibility · Linguistics · Literature · Mythology · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Population · Sociology · Transculturation · Anthropology · Demography · Gender Studies · Indigenous Cultures and History · Latin American Cultural Politics · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America · Genetics

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