Argentina has always passed as a white country in Latin America, as a society developed by the descendants of European immigrants, whose most noteworthy features—from a North American and European academic point of view—have always been Peronism, the social movements organized around the disappeared during the military dictatorship, and the country's emblematic music, tango. This book forcefully shows that there is much more in the country that deserves study and that looking at the country through the lens of race has much of interest to uncover.
Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina consciously steers clear of the generally accepted idea of Argentine racial exceptionalism as well as the counternarrative that, by condemning the achievement of this whitening project through ethnic cleansing, confirms this project's success. As editors Paulina Alberto and Eduardo Elena state in the introduction, the book rethinks “the meanings and workings of race in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Argentina by...
