'The relationship between race and nation continues to be a major theme in Latin American studies, and Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina will help instructors and students explore the interactions and tensions between the symbolic dimensions of 'race' and its role as an unstable signifier for specific populations. The excellent essays in this book will definitively bring Argentina into the larger conversation about race and nation in the region.' Barbara Weinstein, New York University
Introduction: the shades of the nation Paulina L. Alberto and Eduardo Elena; 1. Insecure whiteness: Jews between civilization and barbarism, 1880s–1940s Sandra McGee Deutsch; 2. People as landscape: the representation of the Criollo interior in early tourist literature in Argentina, 1920–30 Oscar Chamosa; 3. Black in Buenos Aires: the transnational career of Oscar Alemán Matthew B. Karush; 4. La Cocina Criolla: a history of food and race in twentieth-century Argentina Rebekah E. Pite; 5. 'Invisible Indians', 'Degenerate Descendants': idiosyncrasies of Mestizaje in Southern Patagonia Mariela Eva Rodríguez; 6. Race and class through the visual culture of Peronism Ezequiel Adamovsky; 7. Argentina in black and white: race, Peronism, and the color of politics, 1940s to the present Eduardo Elena; 8. African descent and whiteness in Buenos Aires: impossible Mestizajes in the white capital city Lea Geler; 9. The savage outside of white Argentina Gastón Gordillo; 10. Between foreigners and heroes: Asian-Argentines in a multicultural nation Chisu Teresa Ko; 11. Indias blancas, negros febriles: racial stories and history-making in contemporary Argentine fiction Paulina L. Alberto; Epilogue: whiteness and its discontents George Reid Andrews.