Black legend : the many lives of RauÌ?l Grigera and the power of racial storytelling in Argentina /

"A few writers evoke RauÌ?l's connection to the commonplaces of the city's African past: slavery, the neighborhood of Montserrat and its percussive candombe rhythms, the dance troupes of carnival. But they struggle to narrate the passage of time between these hazy, distant memories an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Alberto, Paulina L. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Subjects:	Grigera, RauÌ?l, > -1955. Black people > Argentina > Biography. Black people > Argentina > Ethnic identity. Black people > Argentina > Social conditions. Africans > Argentina > History. Argentina > Race relations. HISTORY > Latin America > General. Africans. Blacks. Blacks > Ethnic identity. Blacks > Social conditions. Race relations. Argentina. Biographies. History.

Table of Contents:

A Note on Terminology
Introduction: Racial stories
Ancestors (1850-1880)
Community (1880-1900)
Youth (1900-1910)
Celebrity (1910-1916)
Defamation (1916-1930)
Deaths (1930-1955)
Epilogue: Afterlives (1955-present)