{"id":58617,"date":"2020-01-28T19:20:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58617"},"modified":"2020-01-28T19:20:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T19:20:49","slug":"hiding-in-plain-sight-black-women-the-law-and-the-making-of-a-white-argentine-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58617","title":{"rendered":"Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University Alabama Press<\/a>
\n2020-01-28
\n184 pages
\n5 B&W figures \/ 7 tables
\n6 x 60 x 9 inches
\nTrade Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8173-2036-2
\nEBook ISBN: 978-0-8173-9265-9<\/p>\n

Erika Denise Edwards<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Charlotte<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Details how African-descended women\u2019s societal, marital, and sexual decisions forever reshaped the racial makeup of Argentina<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Argentina values the perception that it is only a country of European immigrants, making it an exception to other Latin American<\/a> countries, which can embrace a more mixed\u2014African, Indian, European\u2014heritage. Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic<\/em> traces the origins of what some white Argentines mischaracterize as a \u201cblack disappearance\u201d by delving into the intimate lives of black women and explaining how they contributed to the making of a \u201cwhite\u201d Argentina<\/a>. Erika Denise Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires<\/a> in the late colonial and early republican periods, with a focus on how these women sought whiteness to better their lives and those of their children.<\/p>\n

Edwards argues that attempts by black women to escape the stigma of blackness by recategorizing themselves and their descendants as white began as early as the late eighteenth century, challenging scholars who assert that the black population drastically declined at the end of the nineteenth century because of the whitening or modernization process. She further contends that in C\u00f3rdoba, Argentina<\/a>, women of African descent (such as wives, mothers, daughters, and concubines) were instrumental in shaping their own racial reclassifications and destinies.<\/p>\n

This volume makes use of a wealth of sources to relate these women\u2019s choices. The sources consulted include city censuses and notarial and probate records that deal with free and enslaved African descendants; criminal, ecclesiastical, and civil court cases; marriages and baptisms records and newsletters. These varied sources provide information about the day-to-day activities of cordob\u00e9s society and how women of African descent lived, formed relationships, thrived, and partook in the transformation of racial identities in Argentina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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