Argentina created a mythology of national whiteness that pretended the country’s Black population had long ago gone extinct, and ignored the presence of indigenous people. But young African-descended Argentinians are fighting “for their visibility” in the nation narrative and history, said Dr Erika Edwards, professor of Colonial Latin American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and author of the book, “Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Public. The Black movement, said Edwards, is “saying that, not only have we not just arrived” in the country, “we have always been here.”
Black political power is gained by expanding independent Black political institutions and bases around agendas not endorsed by the ruling elite.
They came into his own home and took his life for no reason.
This week pro-Zionist censorship and police brutality were on your minds.
Five Indian nations brought their Black slaves on the Trail of Tears and it was Black labor that helped them rebuild.
Climate change is materialized through a racialized praxis, and those materialities of race produce racialized climates of survival.
