The Study of Racialism

G-Man · Moderator Joined: 27 Nov 2004 {Posts: 2590 }

¿Hay afro descendientes negros en la argentina? La mayoría de los argentinos diría que no y más de un extranjero conocedor de estas tierras también lo negaría, pero esa es una respuesta errónea.
Hoy los afro-descendientes luchan por sobrevivir al aislamiento y la asimilación, por desmitificar su desaparición, contra la discriminación y contra el olvido.
Se resisten al "blanqueamiento" al que fueron condenados por siglos, en busca de una sociedad más "culta" y europea.
Es con el testimonio de esta lucha, que "Negro che..." se propone dar luz a la triste historia de desaparición y miseria que desde el estado y gran parte de la sociedad argentina han llevado a los integrantes de este grupo social.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8H4w28ws1I

fwsweet · Posted: Mon 02 Jun 2008 13:12 Post subject:

I would love to see a study on the success rate of recent movements to split South American societies along a Black/White color line. In nations with a relatively high mean African admixture (Brazil, Haiti, Dominican Republic) it is easy to imagine such an effort gaining at least some traction due to colorism. But in nations with a an evenly distributed mean African admixture of 7 percent or less (Argentina, Chile), there are simply no families of sub-Saharan phenotype present, other than recent immigrants. And so, such movements can attract only recent immigrants plus Euro-looking folks who, for whatever reason, want to see themselves as internally Black.

The strategy of the film advertised above "Los Primeros Desaparecidos" is to echo the disappearance and execution of thousands of socialist-leaning Argentines under right-wing regimes. It follows the current U.S. humanities canon that Latin Americans successfully committed deliberate mass genocide of the Black "race" by having permitted Afro-Euro intermarriage over the centuries. This polemic appeals to academia, of course, but it is hard to see who else would take it seriously.

Such pro-racialist film and literary projects, that argue in favor of creating endogamous barriers where none exist now, garner great grade-point averages and advanced degrees in U.S. universitities. It would be interesting to see if they also have any impact on the average voter in their own countries.

I am not suggesting that adopting U.S. racialism would (or would not) benefit (or harm) Latin American societies. I am simply asking if anyone has evidence whether the efforts to do so are working, especially among nations lacking inhabitants with visually noticeable sub-Saharan admixture. So please do not answer that Argentina's adopting U.S. racialism would be good or bad. I am asking only if anyone has evidence whether the effort is working.