Erika Denise Edwards Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic 9780817320362

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Автор: Erika Denise Edwards
Название: Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic
ISBN: 9780817320362
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Америк

Гендерные исследования: женщины

Этнические исследования

ISBN-10: 0817320369
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 184
Вес: 0.43 кг.
Дата издания: 30.01.2020
Серия: History
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 5 black & white figures, 7 tables
Размер: 229 x 152 x 9144
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: History of the Americas,Gender studies: women,Ethnic studies, HISTORY / Latin America / South America,HISTORY / Latin America / General,HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Подзаголовок: Black women, the law, and the making of a white argentine republic
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Details how African-descended women's societal, marital, and sexual decisions forever reshaped the racial makeup of Argentina. Argentina values the perception that it is only a country of European immigrants, making it an exception to other Latin American countries, which can embrace a more mixed-African, Indian, European-heritage. Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic traces the origins of what some white Argentines mischaracterize as a 'black disappearance' by delving into the intimate lives of black women and explaining how they contributed to the making of a 'white' Argentina. Erika Denise Edwards has produced the first comprehensive study in English of the history of African descendants outside of Buenos Aires in the late colonial and early republican periods, with a focus on how these women sought whiteness to better their lives and those of their children. Edwards argues that attempts by black women to escape the stigma of blackness by recategorizing themselves and their descendants as white began as early as the late eighteenth century, challenging scholars who assert that the black population drastically declined at the end of the nineteenth century because of the whitening or modernization process. She further contends that in Córdoba, Argentina, women of African descent (such as wives, mothers, daughters, and concubines) were instrumental in shaping their own racial reclassifications and destinies. This volume makes use of a wealth of sources to relate these women's choices. The sources consulted include city censuses and notarial and probate records that deal with free and enslaved African descendants; criminal, ecclesiastical, and civil court cases; marriages and baptisms records and newsletters. These varied sources provide information about the day-to-day activities of cordobés society and how women of African descent lived, formed relationships, thrived, and partook in the transformation of racial identities in Argentina.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic, Erika Denise Edwards