Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina [Paperback]

This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It challenges readers to consider new ways of thinking about the meanings of race and its role in the formation of modern nations.This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It challenges readers to consider new ways of thinking about the meanings of race and its role in the formation of modern nations.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.Introduction: the shades of the nation Paulina L. Alberto and Eduardo Elena; 1. Insecure whiteness: Jews between civilization and barbarism, 1880s1940s Sandra McGee Deutsch; 2. People as landscape: the representation of the Criollo interior in early tourist literature in Argentina, 192030 Oscar Chamosa; 3. Black in Buenos Aires: the transnatil£A