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Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay Kindle Edition
Afro-Uruguayans were also central participants in the creation of Uruguayan popular culture and the country's principal musical forms, tango and candombe. Candombe, a style of African-inflected music, is one of the defining features of the nation's culture, embraced equally by white and black citizens.
In Blackness in the White Nation, George Reid Andrews offers a comprehensive history of Afro-Uruguayans from the colonial period to the present. Showing how social and political mobilization is intertwined with candombe, he traces the development of Afro-Uruguayan racial discourse and argues that candombe's evolution as a central part of the nation's culture has not fundamentally helped the cause of racial equality. Incorporating lively descriptions of his own experiences as a member of a candombe drumming and performance group, Andrews consistently connects the struggles of Afro-Uruguayans to the broader issues of race, culture, gender, and politics throughout Latin America and the African diaspora generally.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press
- Publication dateOctober 18, 2010
- File size2811 KB
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Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay, offers a refreshingly nuanced and successful statement on the continuing importance of nation-specific analyses in the study of blackness and black history.--H-Net Reviews
[An] engagingly written, creative, and politically relevant study.--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
It is striking how seamlessly Andrews integrates diverse sources into this fascinating history.--Hispanic American Historical Review
A fabulous read . . . . Andrews is a superb comparativist, and in his hands, the story of a small black population in a small country--far from being a curiosity or mere footnote to Afro-Latin American history--sheds new light on the specificity and contingency of patterns of racial formation and mobilization across the region.--The Americas
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- ASIN : B0042X9O8K
- Publisher : The University of North Carolina Press (October 18, 2010)
- Publication date : October 18, 2010
- Language : English
- File size : 2811 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Not Enabled
- Print length : 255 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,611,494 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #88 in Uruguayan History
- #857 in History of Race & Ethnicity
- #1,346 in South American History (Kindle Store)
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- Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2015I am Uruguayan and it is incredibly challenging to find literature about my own people. This book specifically looks at the African/Indigenous roots of Uruguay and how certain aspects were appropriated by white Europeans. It looks most specifically through the lens of Carnival and Candombe music. It was amazing and I learned so much about my culture. I LOVE this book.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2018Very detailed and well researched book. A comprehensive look at a part of Uruguayan society that is mostly ignored even to this day.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2018Mr Andrews has done it again. Wonderful book.