Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina

Paulina Alberto, Eduardo Elena

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781107107632
• eBook ISBN: 9781316478486
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Latin American & Caribbean History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Table of contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Notes on the contributors
• Preface
• Introduction: The shades of the nation
• Part I Histories of race in the twentieth century
• Part II Race and nation in the new century
• Collective bibliography
• Index