{"id":59875,"date":"2020-07-06T00:48:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T00:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59875"},"modified":"2020-07-06T00:48:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T00:48:42","slug":"the-role-of-black-women-in-the-making-of-a-white-argentine-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59875","title":{"rendered":"The Role of Black Women in the Making of a White Argentine Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Role of Black Women in the Making of a White Argentine Republic<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Black Perspectives<\/a>
\n2020-07-02<\/p>\n

Christina Proenza Coles<\/strong><\/a>, Lecturer of American Studies
\nUniversity of Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n

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Erika Denise Edwards, Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic<\/em><\/a> (Tuscaloosa: University Alabama Press, 2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The discovery of personal whiteness among the world\u2019s peoples is a very modern thing,\u201d observed W.E.B. Du Bois<\/a>, \u201ca nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed.\u201d1<\/sup> The exposition of whiteness<\/a> as a novel social construct and political tool masquerading as a natural category has been ably elaborated by several scholars in the last forty years. Erika Denise Edward\u2019s<\/a> new book, Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic<\/em><\/a>, is both innovative as well as firmly grounded in the rich tradition of scholarship that illuminates the manifold processes, policies, sites, and situations in which notions of whiteness were negotiated, reified, and contested across the New World<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hiding in Plain Sight<\/em> counters conventional narratives about the demographic decline of Afro-Argentines<\/a> as it centers the initiatives of African-descended women in capitalizing on the privileges of whiteness. Edwards, an Associate Professor of colonial Latin American History at UNC Charlotte<\/a>, addresses broad questions regarding the complex relationships between race and class in Latin America<\/a>, including \u201chow the caste societies of the colonial and early national periods were gradually transformed into the class societies of the twentieth century.\u201d2<\/sup>…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Erika Denise Edward\u2019s new book, is both innovative as well as firmly grounded in the rich tradition of scholarship that illuminates the manifold processes, policies, sites, and situations in which notions of whiteness were negotiated, reified, and contested across the New World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,21,459,8,6940,25],"tags":[676,26485,30803,7400],"class_list":["post-59875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-slavery","category-women","tag-argentina","tag-black-perspectives","tag-christina-proenza-coles","tag-erika-denise-edwards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59875","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=59875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59876,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59875\/revisions\/59876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}