2018/06/26 by E. D. Edwards · 6 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Argentine historical studies #Borges, Kipling, and Jewish Identity #Classics #Demography #European population #Gender studies #Genealogy #History #Latin American and Latino Studies #Latin Americans #Law #Meaning (existential) #Mythology #Political science #Population #Psychology #Psychotherapist #Sociology #White (mutation)
paper · doi:10.1111/hic3.12456
published in History Compass 16(7) (Wiley)
openalex publication_date 2018/06/26 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
Abstract While visiting what is considered the most European and White country in Latin America, I often asked Argentines, “What happened to the Black population?” The most common response I heard on the streets of Argentina “there are no Blacks, they disappeared.” But how can a population “disappear” and what exactly does that constitute for a country that prides itself in being European. Scholars have grappled with the meaning of disappearance and the consequences of the myth of Black disappearance since the 1960s. This essay traces their observations and conclusions, which have put the color back into Argentina's whitened past.