{"id":61164,"date":"2021-08-02T14:33:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=61164"},"modified":"2021-08-02T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T14:35:18","slug":"pardo-is-the-new-black-the-urban-origins-of-argentinas-myth-of-black-disappearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=61164","title":{"rendered":"Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina\u2019s Myth of Black Disappearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina\u2019s Myth of Black Disappearance<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Global Urban History<\/a>
\n2016-12-19<\/p>\n

Erika Edwards<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of History
\nUniversity of North Carolina, Charlotte<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nBernardino Rivadavia<\/a>, Argentina\u2019s first president (1826-27) was nicknamed \u201cDoctor Chocolate.\u201d Painting by Mirta Toledo<\/a>, 2013<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

It was a typical day, nothing out of the ordinary. I, a young, small-town girl had landed in a foreign country to begin my study abroad. I knew nothing about Argentina<\/a> and was excited to discover the country. It did not take long for me to realize that my experience would be life changing. Black in a very white country, I stood out like a sore thumb. I was the \u201cother.\u201d At first I was uncomfortable, but then, I realized that my blackness was not the same in Argentina as in the United States<\/a>. My blackness meant something else. I was exotic, if not exceptional, and surprisingly I was not black! Instead I was morocha<\/em> (a non-offensive term referring to darker skin). How could that be? I had transformed into a lighter version of myself. As I grew accustomed to being called morocha<\/em>, I could not help wondering who constituted a morocha<\/em>. Over time the answer became apparent: anyone who was not white. Other countries had mestizos<\/em> (Indian and white mixture\/descendant), or mulattos<\/a><\/em> (black and white), but Argentina had grouped African and Indian descendants and people with tanned skin tones, often descendants of immigrants from Mediterranean countries<\/a>, into a single category. Argentines proclaimed there \u201cwere no blacks in their country,\u201d but the country certainly had a lot of morochos<\/em>! Despite the lack of African descendants\u2019 visibility today, in 1778 they had a significant share of the national population. Concentrated in cities, African descendants amounted to 44 percent of the inhabitants of the provincial city of C\u00f3rdoba<\/a>, for instance.[1] The decline of this population a national question for Argentina, whose black population dwindled from roughly 30 percent of the total population to 0.37 percent according to the 2010 census…<\/p>\n

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Pardo is the New Black: The Urban Origins of Argentina\u2019s Myth of Black Disappearance Global Urban History 2016-12-19 Erika Edwards, Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina, Charlotte Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentina\u2019s first president (1826-27) was nicknamed \u201cDoctor Chocolate.\u201d Painting by Mirta Toledo, 2013 It was a typical day, nothing out of the ordinary. I, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8,26],"tags":[676,7400,7401,31681],"class_list":["post-61164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-argentina","tag-erika-denise-edwards","tag-erika-edwards","tag-global-urban-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61164","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=61164"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61167,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61164\/revisions\/61167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}