This presentation is a gendered analysis of black invisibility in Argentina. It focuses on Black and African-descended women who actively partook in the construction of racial identities during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Focusing on the household and intimate relationships that ensued, Edwards argues that Black and African-descended concubines, wives, mothers, and daughters are central to understanding the making of a white Argentine nation.
Erika Edwards is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the author of Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic.
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Part of Race: Myths and Realities, the Kennedy Center Winter 2021 Lecture Series