ABSTRACT

Afrodescendant activists in Argentina challenge the belief that there are no Black Argentines, and therefore an impossibility of anti-black racism in the country. Insufficient data on race, the complex separation of the word negro (black) from phenotype, and the myth of Argentina as a “white” nation that falls outside the purview of Latin America’s racialized nations have resulted in a dearth of scholarship on this case. Drawing from twenty-two months of ethnographic fieldwork, this article analyses processes of racialization through micro-level exchanges that reproduce existing racial hierarchies. I argue that “foreignization” is a racialized mechanism that reproduces the pervasive myth of Argentina’s homogeneous whiteness. I illustrate this mechanism through the analysis of three patterns of racialized encounters that were salient during my fieldwork: afrophilia, curiosity, and insecure whiteness. The present data shows that Argentina is an important case to consider in our understanding of race in Latin America.

摘要

阿根廷的非洲裔激进主义者挑战认为没有阿根廷黑人的想法，因此该国不可能进行反黑人种族主义。关于种族的数据不足，黑人一词的复杂分隔（黑色）来自表型，而且阿根廷作为“白人”国家的神话超出了拉丁美洲种族主义国家的管辖范围，导致对该案的学术研究不足。本文从二十二个月的民族志田野调查中汲取了经验，通过微观的交流来分析种族化的过程，这些交流再现了现有的种族等级制度。我认为“外国化”是种族化的机制，再现了阿根廷均一的白度的普遍神话。我通过分析三种在我的田野调查中很重要的种族化遭遇模式来说明这种机制：亲缘性，好奇心和不安全的白度。当前数据表明，阿根廷是我们了解拉丁美洲种族时要考虑的重要案例。