{"id":22307,"date":"2012-04-08T22:10:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T22:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22307"},"modified":"2017-03-25T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T14:26:31","slug":"the-afro-argentines-of-buenos-aires-1800%e2%80%931900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22307","title":{"rendered":"The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800\u20131900"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uwpress.wisc.edu\/books\/0728.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800\u20131900<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwpress.wisc.edu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Wisconsin Press<\/a><br \/>\nNovember 1980<br \/>\n308 pages<br \/>\n6 x 9, 15 illus. or photos, several tables<br \/>\nISBN-10: 0299082903<br \/>\nISBN-13: 978-0299082901<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.pitt.edu\/faculty\/andrews.php\" target=\"_blank\">George Reid Andrews<\/a><\/strong>, Distinguished Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>University of Pittsburgh<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uwpress.wisc.edu\/books\/0728.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51xDeftnxZL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Reid Andrews has given us a major revision and reconstruction of black history in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argentina\" target=\"_blank\">Argentina<\/a> since the time of independence, making an exciting and important contribution to both Latin American and Afro-American history. Along the way, he explodes long-held myths, solves a major historical mystery, and documents contributions of blacks to a society that has, in its pursuit of \u201cwhiteness,\u201d virtually denied their existence.<\/p>\n<p>While historians have devoted much attention to Afro-Latin American slavery of the colonial period, Andrews is among the first to examine the history of the post-abolition period. He illuminates the social, economic, and political roles of black people in the evolving societies of the national period, effectively destroying the myths that the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Argentines\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Argentines<\/a> virtually disappeared over the course of a century, that they played no significant role in Argentine history after the independence, and that they were quietly and peacefully integrated into the larger society. While similar studies have been carried out for the black experience in the United States, this is the first such attempt for any Spanish American country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Reid Andrews has given us a major revision and reconstruction of black history in Argentina since the time of independence, making an exciting and important contribution to both Latin American and Afro-American history. Along the way, he explodes long-held myths, solves a major historical mystery, and documents contributions of blacks to a society that has, in its pursuit of \u201cwhiteness,\u201d virtually denied their existence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,21,459,8,17],"tags":[12089,676,6666,6667,6665,1684],"class_list":["post-22307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-monographs","tag-afro-argentines","tag-argentina","tag-george-andrews","tag-george-r-andrews","tag-george-reid-andrews","tag-university-of-wisconsin-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52888,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22307\/revisions\/52888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}