Foreigners in our own land: invisibilization and marginalization of the Buenos Aires black population, and the atin-segregation discourse of La Broma (1879 – 1882)
Periodical press; Argentina; afro-argentines; racism; post-abolition
The main objective of this research is to interpret the discourses of intellectual journalists from the Buenairense weekly La Broma between 1879 and 1882, a moment characterized by the rise of a series of deprivations imposed on the black population in the Argentine city. For this reflection, we will present a discussion about the social representations of black people in Buenos Aires historiography, and the process of invisibility imposed on Afro-descendants by hegemonic groups that built the national identity around a white-European ideal. The spokespersons of the Afro-Portuguese community, through their parallel communicative sphere, constituted an identity in the resistance to exclusion and segregationism, which provided the expansion of its symbolic field and consequently the emergence of visibility, which opens precedents for analyzing the emancipatory dynamics developed.