ABSTRACT

Buenos Aires’ robust Afrodescendant press in the late nineteenth century has allowed scholars to reconstruct Afro-Argentine thought and associational life during a nation-building process aimed at forcefully integrating Afrodescendants into a citizenship imagined as homogenous, racially white, and culturally European. This scholarship has helped to refute narratives of ‘disappearance’ of Black populations and to replace the diagnosis of ‘invisibility’ with affirmative stories of Black life and presence in the nineteenth century. In contrast, the twentieth century has been characterized by a lack of sources written by and about Afro-Argentines. This research note brings to light an early twentieth-century Afro-Argentine magazine previously unknown to scholars – Falucho: Revista quincenal ilustrada. Defiende los intereses de la gente de color en Sud América (1927–1928). It highlights the publication’s key features and suggests new avenues for research into a period that remains under-explored in the scholarship. This illustrated bi-weekly magazine is a vital source for contesting enduring ideas of Afro-Argentines’ waning sociability, providing a rare glimpse into how Afro-Argentines negotiated their positions as Argentines and Latin Americans ‘of color’ at a time when their collective non-existence was entrenched in the national imaginary, and when anti-Black racism was at an apex.

摘要

十九世纪末，布宜诺斯艾利斯强大的非洲裔报刊使学者们能够在国家建设过程中重建非洲裔阿根廷人的思想和社团生活，旨在将非洲裔强行融入被想象为同质、白人种族和欧洲文化的公民身份中。这项奖学金有助于反驳黑人人口“消失”的叙述，并用关于十九世纪黑人生活和存在的肯定故事取代“隐形”的诊断。相比之下，二十世纪的特点是缺乏由非裔阿根廷人撰写的以及关于非裔阿根廷人的资料。这篇研究报告揭示了学者们以前不知道的一份二十世纪初的非洲裔阿根廷杂志——Falucho：Revista quincenal ilustrada。捍卫南美洲色彩的利益（1927-1928）。它强调了该出版物的主要特点，并为学术界尚未充分探索的时期提出了新的研究途径。这本插图双周刊是争论非洲裔阿根廷人社交能力减弱这一持久观点的重要来源，它提供了一个难得的视角，让我们了解非洲裔阿根廷人在集体非裔美国人的情况下如何协商他们作为阿根廷人和拉丁美洲“有色人种”的立场。当反黑人种族主义达到顶峰时，存在就根深蒂固地存在于国家想象中。