El color de la nación argentina: conflictos y negociaciones por la definición de un ethnos nacional, de la crisis al Bicentenario
This article analyses the emergence of a non-diasporic “negro” identity in Argentina in the past three decades, as a reaction against discrimination of the poor on “racial” grounds. Although this discrimination is not new, the narrative of the white-European nation sponsored by the State made it alm...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2012 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/26581 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/26581 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Etnicidad Clases populares Raza https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.1 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6 |
| Sumario: | This article analyses the emergence of a non-diasporic “negro” identity in Argentina in the past three decades, as a reaction against discrimination of the poor on “racial” grounds. Although this discrimination is not new, the narrative of the white-European nation sponsored by the State made it almost impossible to confront it, or at least not openly. However, the weakening of the Nation-state as the aftermath of economic and political crisis opened up a new space for renegotiating the definition of the Argentinean ethnos. By examining different manifestations of lower class culture - from the spread of afro-Brazilian religions to murgas in carnival, and from popular music to political appeals - this article explores the ethnic dimension to class identities in recent Argentinean history. The emerging “negro” identity is interpreted as a metonymic mark in a class identity, rather than an ethnic identity properly speaking. |
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