The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900 PDF
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"Reid Andrews' book is an excellent reconstruction of the history of the black population in Buenos Aires. Every chapter marshalls new facts and delivers them with marvelous verbal economy yet unimpeachable logic ... No other study so thoroughly documents the successes, the failures, the problems, and the cultural impact of an Afro-American group within the context of its local society.'' w. FRANKLIN KNIGHT Department of History Johns Hopkins University George Reid Andrews has given us a major revision and reconstruction of black history in Argentina since the time of in dependence, making an exciting and im portant contribution to both Latin Ameri can and Afro-American history. Along the way, he explodes long-held myths, solves a major historical mystery, and documents contributions of blacks to a society that has, in its pursuit of "whiteness," virtually denied their existence. While historians have devoted much at tention to Afro-Latin American slavery of the colonial period, Andrews is among the first to examine the history of the post abolition period. He illuminates the social, economic, and political roles of black peo ple in the evolving societies of the national period, effectively destroying the myths that the Afro-Argentines virtually disap peared over the course of a century, that they played no significant role in Argen tine history after the independence, and that they were quietly and peacefully in tegrated into the larger society. While similar studies have been carried out for the black experience in the United States, this is the first such attempt for any Spanish American country. In 1778, blacks constituted thirty per cent of the population of Buenos Aires. By 1887, according to official figures, that number had fallen to two per cent. This . THE AFRO-ARGENTINES OF BUENOS AIRES, 1800-1900 THE AFRO ARGENTINES OF BUENOS AIRES, 1800-1900 George Reid Andrews THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS Published 1980 The University of Wisconsin Press 114 North Murray Street Madison, Wisconsin 53715 The University of Wisconsin Press, Ltd. 1 Gower Street London WC lE 6HA, England Copyright © 1980 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved First printing Printed in the United States of America For LC CIP information see the colophon ISBN 0-299-08290-3 A Roye, la luz de mi vida
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