Sameness, otherness, and citizenship in the afro-argentine press of late 19th Century

Abstract

This article presents an overview of the ways in which, in the late nineteenth century, Argentines of African origin reflect the image they had of themselves through their newspapers. In the analysis, we discuss how this community partially reproduced hegemonic sociocultural ideals transmitted by the white elite, and to this extent recreates hybrid aesthetic models that value the black identity and the construction of citizenship in reciprocity with Europeans standards spread in the popular imagination.