{"id":22776,"date":"2012-04-29T17:52:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T17:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22776"},"modified":"2015-07-26T22:16:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T22:16:26","slug":"blackness-in-the-white-nation-a-history-of-afro-uruguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22776","title":{"rendered":"Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of North Carolina Press<\/a>
\nOctober 2010
\n256 pages
\n6.125 x 9.25, 14 illus., 9 tables, notes, bibl., index
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8078-3417-6
\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-8078-7158-4<\/p>\n

George Reid Andrews<\/a><\/strong>, Distinguished Professor of History
\nUniversity of Pittsburgh<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

2011 Arthur P. Whitaker Prize, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Uruguay<\/a> is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in the country. Afro-Uruguayans played important roles in Uruguay’s national life, creating the second-largest black press in Latin America, a racially defined political party, and numerous social and civic organizations.<\/p>\n

Afro-Uruguayans were also central participants in the creation of Uruguayan popular culture and the country’s principal musical forms, tango and candombe<\/a><\/em>. Candombe<\/em>, a style of African-inflected music, is one of the defining features of the nation’s culture, embraced equally by white and black citizens.<\/p>\n

In Blackness in the White Nation<\/em>, George Reid Andrews offers a comprehensive history of Afro-Uruguayans from the colonial period to the present. Showing how social and political mobilization is intertwined with candombe<\/em>, he traces the development of Afro-Uruguayan racial discourse and argues that candombe’s<\/em> evolution as a central part of the nation’s culture has not fundamentally helped the cause of racial equality. Incorporating lively descriptions of his own experiences as a member of a candombe drumming and performance group, Andrews consistently connects the struggles of Afro-Uruguayans to the broader issues of race, culture, gender, and politics throughout Latin America and the African diaspora generally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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