Día Nacional De Los Afroargentinos

[nyer4ever]

TODAY!
http://www.cultura.gob.ar/noticias/los-afroargentinos-celebran-su-dia-con-musica-y-baile/

 

[ajoknoblauch]

This country has often preferred to ignore or destroy its Afro-Argentine heritage: http://tinyurl.com/l89e4fb

 

[camberiu]

Bah che, pero no hay negros en Argentina.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

Bah che, pero no hay negros en Argentina.

To quote historian George Reid Andrews, they are "forgotten but not gone:" http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/0728.htm

 

[Ries]

I thought they sent them off to be killed in the war with Paraguay, and then just married the rest of them, and called their kids white. Assimilation, more or less.
Regardless, Porteno's are not very funky.

 

[nlaruccia]

I drove by the feria today, but alas, there were no African Argentines. However, there were three or four Mexican taco stands.