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Blackness in the white nation : a history of Afro-Uruguay

Andrews offers a comprehensive history of Afro-Uruguayans from the colonial period to the present. Showing how social and political mobilization is intertwined with candombe, he traces the development of Afro-Uruguayan racial discourse and argues that candombe's evolution as a central part of the nation's culture has not fundamentally helped the cause of racial equality

eBook, English, ©2010
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2010