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Miscegenation, marriage, and manumission in Cordoba -- Regulating and administering freedom in Cordoba -- "Her best performance" : from slave to senora -- "A woman of his class" : contested intermarriages -- Maternity and the manumission process -- Lessons of motherhood : the beginning of institutionalized whitening -- Conclusion: Visualizing black invisibility.

Abstract: This article explores the intergenerational dynamics within the Black family in postcolonial Córdoba, Argentina. It delves into the difficult reality that Black emancipation did not define freedom. Instead "free" status remained a precarious existence to which some free and free(d) Black parents clung by differentiating themselves from the enslaved population. Through the examination of marriage dissent court cases that featured African-descended families as plaintiffs and defendants, this article demonstrates that the maintenance of a social hierarchy that discriminated against the enslaved did not only emanate from external influences, such as governing authorities and policies, but the African-descendant population also internalized and upheld it.

This essay reviews the following works:
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Ao visitar aquele que é considerado o mais europeu e mais branco país da América Latina, eu frequentemente perguntava aos argentinos, "o que aconteceu com a população negra? " A resposta mais comum que eu ouvia nas ruas do país "não existem negros, eles desapareceram". Como pode uma população "desaparecer" e como isto é constitutivo de uma nação que se orgulha de ser europeia. Desde a década de 1960 pesquisadores tem debatido os significados do desaparecimento e as consequências do mito do desaparecimento negro. Este ensaio delineia suas observações e conclusões recolocando a cor ao embranquecido passado da Argentina.