Borradura y visualización de las identidades afropoteñas en la producción cultural Argentina, siglos xviii-xxi
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description: In Argentina, national space has been racially marked in official discourse as one predominantly white while indigenous and black populations have been marginalized from the construction of national cultural production and identities. George Andrews was the first scholar to recognize such oblivion when he stated that Argentineans use to tell their visitors “there are no blacks in Buenos Aires” (3). Since then, a scarce body of scholarship has examined the influence of Afrodescendants in music (Conde 2003; Ortiz y Conde 2009), language (Conde 2011), journalism (Geler 2010; Cirio 2009), and contemporary literature (Alberto 2015). Critically, these works have questioned the denial that Andrews recalled by focusing on a single period or cultural expression. To date, no study has approached the intersection between identity, space, and race relations in Argentina. My dissertation, Identidades silenciadas: aproximaciones críticas a la producción cultural afroporteña, siglos XVIII-XIX [Forgotten Identities: Critical Readings on Afroporteños Cultural Productions, 18th-20th Century], addresses the historical and cultural evolution of race relations, and identity construction which have informed limited access to urban space and unequal distribution of power in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I argue that Afroporteños –Afro-descendants who have lived in the Port of Buenos Aires– were willing to challenge the so-called absence to which they were being circumscribed by exercising their agency and asserting their belonging in the city. In order to demonstrate that, I examine legal documents, lithographs, newspapers, photographs, catalogs, and literary works that I collected at the National Library Mariano Moreno and General Archive. My analysis is focused on the identification of what I call “meaningful spaces of identity production” such as urban –the streets and the pulperia–, domestic, symbolic –the Afroporteño press–, and institutional ones –the archive and the museum–. A close rea…
abstract: In Argentina, national space has been racially marked in official discourse as one predominantly white while indigenous and black populations have been marginalized from the construction of national cultural production and identities. George Andrews was the first scholar to recognize such oblivion when he stated that Argentineans use to tell their visitors “there are no blacks in Buenos Aires” (3). Since then, a scarce body of scholarship has examined the influence of Afrodescendants in music (Conde 2003; Ortiz y Conde 2009), language (Conde 2011), journalism (Geler 2010; Cirio 2009), and contemporary literature (Alberto 2015). Critically, these works have questioned the denial that Andrews recalled by focusing on a single period or cultural expression. To date, no study has approached the intersection between identity, space, and race relations in Argentina. My dissertation, Identidades silenciadas: aproximaciones críticas a la producción cultural afroporteña, siglos XVIII-XIX [Forgotten Identities: Critical Readings on Afroporteños Cultural Productions, 18th-20th Century], addresses the historical and cultural evolution of race relations, and identity construction which have informed limited access to urban space and unequal distribution of power in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I argue that Afroporteños –Afro-descendants who have lived in the Port of Buenos Aires– were willing to challenge the so-called absence to which they were being circumscribed by exercising their agency and asserting their belonging in the city. In order to demonstrate that, I examine legal documents, lithographs, newspapers, photographs, catalogs, and literary works that I collected at the National Library Mariano Moreno and General Archive. My analysis is focused on the identification of what I call “meaningful spaces of identity production” such as urban –the streets and the pulperia–, domestic, symbolic –the Afroporteño press–, and institutional ones –the archive and the museum–. A close rea…
author: Moreno Chuquen, Liz Karine
language: es
keywords: Argentina, Race relations, Afro descendants, Cultural Identities
date published: 2019-11-26T20:59:41Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:24:45Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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