Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina - Shades of the Nation

This book reconsiders the relationship between race and nation in Argentina during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

List of contents

Introduction: the shades of the nation Paulina L. Alberto and Eduardo Elena; 1. Insecure whiteness: Jews between civilization and barbarism, 1880s-1940s Sandra McGee Deutsch; 2. People as landscape: the representation of the Criollo interior in early tourist literature in Argentina, 1920-30 Oscar Chamosa; 3. Black in Buenos Aires: the transnational career of Oscar Alemán Matthew B. Karush; 4. La Cocina Criolla: a history of food and race in twentieth-century Argentina Rebekah E. Pite; 5. 'Invisible Indians', 'Degenerate Descendants': idiosyncrasies of Mestizaje in Southern Patagonia Mariela Eva Rodríguez; 6. Race and class through the visual culture of Peronism Ezequiel Adamovsky; 7. Argentina in black and white: race, Peronism, and the color of politics, 1940s to the present Eduardo Elena; 8. African descent and whiteness in Buenos Aires: impossible Mestizajes in the white capital city Lea Geler; 9. The savage outside of white Argentina Gastón Gordillo; 10. Between foreigners and heroes: Asian-Argentines in a multicultural nation Chisu Teresa Ko; 11. Indias blancas, negros febriles: racial stories and history-making in contemporary Argentine fiction Paulina L. Alberto; Epilogue: whiteness and its discontents George Reid Andrews.

About the author

Paulina L. Alberto is Associate Professor of History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.Eduardo Elena is Associate Professor of History at the University of Miami.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paulina Alberto, Paulina (University of Michigan Alberto, Paulina L. Elena Alberto
• Assisted by: Paulina Alberto (Editor), Paulina (University of Michigan Alberto (Editor), Paulina L. Alberto (Editor), Eduardo Elena (Editor), Eduardo (University of Miami) Elena (Editor), Elena Eduardo (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2016
• EAN: 9781107107632
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10763-2
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Argentina, 20th Century, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, History of the Americas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General