{"id":62385,"date":"2021-11-27T21:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62385"},"modified":"2021-11-27T23:35:40","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T23:35:40","slug":"argentine-movement-tries-to-make-black-heritage-more-visible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62385","title":{"rendered":"Argentine movement tries to make Black heritage more visible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Argentine movement tries to make Black heritage more visible<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Associated Press<\/a>
\n2021-11-26<\/p>\n

Christiana Sciaudone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Julia Cohen Ribeiro<\/a> poses for a photo in Buenos Aires, Argentina<\/a>, Friday, Nov. 12, 2021. Ribeiro had never identified as anything other than Brazilian in her country of birth. Then at age 11, she was shocked when people on the street and in school in Buenos Aires insisted that she was Black. (AP Photo\/Natacha Pisarenko)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina<\/a> (AP) \u2014 It wasn\u2019t until Julia Cohen Ribeiro<\/a> moved to Argentina<\/a> that she discovered she was Black.<\/p>\n

Her hair was curly, but her skin was light. She had never identified as anything other than Brazilian in her country of birth. Then 11, she was shocked when people on the street and in school in Buenos Aires<\/a> insisted that she was Black.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was never told I was Black growing up,\u201d said Ribeiro, now a 25-year-old film student at the University of Buenos Aires<\/a>. The daughter of a white mother and Black father, she has since embraced that identity and joined a burgeoning Afro-Argentine<\/a> movement that seeks to eliminate the persistent myth that there are no Black people in the country and to combat discrimination against them.<\/p>\n

The 2010 census recorded about 150,000 people of African descent in Argentina, a nation of 45 million, but activists estimate the true figure is closer to 2 million following a surge of immigration \u2014 and because many Argentines have forgotten or ignore African ancestry…<\/p>\n

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

The 2010 census recorded about 150,000 people of African descent in Argentina, a nation of 45 million, but activists estimate the true figure is closer to 2 million following a surge of immigration \u2014 and because many Argentines have forgotten or ignore African ancestry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,8,26],"tags":[12089,32493,32502,32490,676,2822,7398,32485,32492,32491,32486,32501,32489,32488,32487,8569],"class_list":["post-62385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-politics","tag-afro-argentines","tag-alberto-fernandez","tag-ammi-djitte","tag-angeles-martinelli","tag-argentina","tag-associated-press","tag-buenos-aires","tag-christiana-sciaudone","tag-elesha-mavrommatis","tag-emanuel-ntaka","tag-julia-cohen-ribeiro","tag-ludmila-diop-argenta","tag-maria-magdalena-lamadrid","tag-maria-remedios-del-valle","tag-nicolas-fernandez-bravo","tag-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62385","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=62385"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62396,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62385\/revisions\/62396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}