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List of figures page vii List of tables ix Notes on the contributors xi Preface xv

Introduction: The shades of the nation 1 Paulina L. Alberto and Eduardo Elena part i histories of race in the twentieth century 1 Insecure whiteness: Jews between civilization and barbarism, 1880s–1940s 25 Sandra McGee Deutsch 2 People as landscape: The representation of the criollo Interior in early tourist literature in Argentina, 1920–30 53 Oscar Chamosa 3 Black in Buenos Aires: The transnational career of Oscar Alemán 73 Matthew B. Karush 4 La cocina criolla: A history of food and race in twentieth-century Argentina 99 Rebekah E. Pite 5 “Invisible Indians,”“degenerate descendants”: Idiosyncrasies of mestizaje in Southern Patagonia 126 Mariela Eva Rodríguez 6 Race and class through the visual culture of Peronism 155 Ezequiel Adamovsky

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7 Argentina in black and white: Race, Peronism, and the color of politics, 1940s to the present 184 Eduardo Elena part ii race and nation in the new century 8 African descent and whiteness in Buenos Aires: Impossible mestizajes in the white capital city 213 Lea Geler 9 The savage outside of White Argentina 241 Gastón Gordillo 10 Between foreigners and heroes: Asian-Argentines in a multicultural nation 268 Chisu Teresa Ko 11 Indias blancas, negros febriles: Racial stories and history-making in contemporary Argentine fiction 289 Paulina L. Alberto

Epilogue: Whiteness and its discontents 318 George Reid Andrews

Collective bibliography 327 Index 361

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