A Twenty-first-Century Agenda for Teaching the History of Modern Afro-Latin America and the Caribbean

Abstract

This [Argentina] was white man’s country, not a country of Indians and half-breeds like Peru or Bolivia—or Brazil, which is just an extension of Africa, no? —Jorge Luis Borges In reference to the stratifying effects of racial ascription, race as a socially elaborated attribute may be conceptualized as related mainly to the subordinate aspect of the reproduction of social classes. —Carlos Hasenbalg