Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina
Paulina Alberto, Eduardo Elena
This
book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and places Argentina firmly in dialog
with the literature on race and nation in Latin America, from where it has long
been excluded or marginalized for being a white, European exception in a
mixed-race region. The contributors, based both in North America and Argentina,
hail from the fields of history, anthropology, and literary and cultural
studies. Their essays collectively destabilize widespread certainties about
Argentina, showing that whiteness in that country has more in common with
practices and ideologies of Mestizaje and 'racial democracy' elsewhere in the region
than has typically been acknowledged. The essays also situate Argentina within
the well-established literature on race, nation, and whiteness in world regions
beyond Latin America (particularly, other European 'settler societies'). The
collection thus contributes to rethinking race for other global contexts as well.
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