INVESTIGADORES
ADAMOVSKY Ezequiel Agustin
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
La paradoja de una identidad negra sin sentido diaspórico: El caso de Cipriano Reyes en perspectiva
Autor/es:
EZEQUIEL ADAMOVSKY
Reunión:
Congreso; II Jornadas de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos; 2011
Institución organizadora:
GEALA/Instituto Ravignani-FFyL-UBA
Resumen:
The historiography of
the 20th-century lower classes in Argentina has neglected the impact
of differences of colour among Argentineans. Not only issues of identity, but
also the concrete ways in which darker-skinned people were excluded from the
best opportunities in the job market, remain unexplored. The aim of this
presentation is to argue that hints of a non-diasporic negro identity can be
traced in Argentinas 20th century. Reactions to the discrimination
on racial grounds in the job market and in the political arena can indeed be
found. However, they rarely appeared explicitly in the public sphere, but
rather indirectly, through the use of certain keys and symbols that alluded to
the negro mark. The presence this non-confrontational strategy will be
explored, by studying one of the rare cases in which it was explicitly
formulated. In 1945 and 1946 Cipriano Reyes a rank-and-file union organizer
played a key role in the birth of Peronism. His political imagination at that
time included a re-definition of the national melting pot and a discussion of
the frontiers of inclusion/exclusion of the Argentine nation.