Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina

FRIGERIO, ALEJANDRO

HISPANIC AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, THE

Duke University Press

Año: 2019 vol. 99 p. 374 - 376

0018-2168

Review of Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina.Edited by paulina alberto and eduardo elena. New York: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2016. 373 pp. Cloth, $120.00.Argentina has always passed as a white country in Latin America, as a society developed by the descendants of European immigrants, whose most noteworthy features?from a North American and European academic point of view?have always been Peronism, the social movements organized around the disappeared during the military dictatorship, and the country?s emblematic music, tango. This book forcefully shows that there is much more in the country that deserves study and that looking at the country through the lens of race has much of interest to uncover.Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina consciously steers clear ofthe generally accepted idea of Argentine racial exceptionalism as well as the counternarrative that, by condemning the achievement of this whitening project through ethnic cleansing, confirms this project?s success.