{"id":47389,"date":"2016-06-07T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47389"},"modified":"2016-06-07T01:00:58","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:00:58","slug":"a-strange-emblem-for-a-not-so-white-nation-la-morocha-argentina-in-the-latin-american-racial-context-c-1900-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47389","title":{"rendered":"A Strange Emblem for a (Not So) White Nation: La Morocha Argentina in the Latin American Racial Context, c. 1900\u20132015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/jsh\/shw018\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>A Strange Emblem for a (Not So) White Nation: La Morocha Argentina in the Latin American Racial Context, c. 1900\u20132015<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jsh.oxfordjournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Social History<\/a><br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1093\/jsh\/shw018\" target=\"_blank\">10.1093\/jsh\/shw018<\/a><br \/>\nFirst published online: 2016-06-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ezequiel_Adamovsky\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ezequiel Adamovsky<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article explores the origins of <em>La morocha argentina<\/em> as an unofficial national emblem, the personification of the quintessential Argentinean woman, from its emergence in the early twentieth century to the present. A typical character of vernacular popular culture, the Argentinean \u201cmorocha\u201d is compared to the \u201cmorenas\u201d featured in other Latin American countries, to find similarities and differences. The racial uncertainty of the \u201cmorochas\u201d\u2014who, unlike the \u201cmorenas,\u201d were not always marked as being of dark complexion\u2014helped undermine the official discourses of the Argentinean nation, which described it as racially white and ethnically European. The ambivalence of the \u201cmorocha argentina\u201d was crucial in contexts in which open challenges of that myth were still unfeasible. Thus, despite claims of racial exceptionalism, the making and trajectory of this emblem proves that Argentina\u2019s racial regime is a variant of the Latin American \u201ccolor-continuum\u201d racial formations. By analyzing the Argentinean case in comparative perspective, this article also seeks to contribute to a better understanding of nonbinary racial models and, more generally, of ethnicity \u201cbeyond groupism\u201d\u2014to put it in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rogers_Brubaker\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Brubaker\u2019s<\/a> terms. In other words, it aims to reconsider ethnicity as a process, the outcome of group-making projects, rather than (only) as the expression of preexisting ethnic entities.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/jsh.oxfordjournals.org\/content\/early\/2016\/06\/01\/jsh.shw018.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Strange Emblem for a (Not So) White Nation: La Morocha Argentina in the Latin American Racial Context, c. 1900\u20132015 Journal of Social History DOI: 10.1093\/jsh\/shw018 First published online: 2016-06-01 Ezequiel Adamovsky This article explores the origins of La morocha argentina as an unofficial national emblem, the personification of the quintessential Argentinean woman, from its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8,25],"tags":[676,23996,2092],"class_list":["post-47389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-argentina","tag-ezequiel-adamovsky","tag-journal-of-social-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47389","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=47389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47390,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47389\/revisions\/47390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}