Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina

Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped...
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Author: Paulina L. Alberto
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Language: English
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Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina by Alberto, Paulina L.

Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina

Dhs. 168.11

Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina

Dhs. 168.11
Author: Paulina L. Alberto
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Celebrities live their lives in constant dialogue with stories about them. But when these stories are shaped by durable racist myths, they wield undue power to ruin lives and obliterate communities. Black Legend is the haunting story of an Afro-Argentine, Raúl Grigera ('el negro Raúl'), who in the early 1900s audaciously fashioned himself into an alluring Black icon of Buenos Aires' bohemian nightlife, only to have defamatory storytellers unmake him. In this gripping history, Paulina Alberto exposes the destructive power of racial storytelling and narrates a new history of Black Argentina and Argentine Blackness across two centuries. With the extraordinary Raúl Grigera at its center, Black Legend opens new windows into lived experiences of Blackness in a 'white' nation, and illuminates how Raúl's experience of celebrity was not far removed from more ordinary experiences of racial stories in the flesh.

Author: Paulina L. Alberto
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/06/2022
Pages: 410
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.20h x 8.00w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781108845557

About the Author
Alberto, Paulina L.: - Paulina L. Alberto is an Argentine-born historian of Afro-Latin America, currently Professor of History, Spanish, and Portuguese at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil and co-editor of Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina. She won the Roberto Reis Prize for Best Book in Brazilian Studies, the Warren Dean Prize for Best Book in Brazilian History, and the James Alexander Robertson Prize for best article in the Hispanic American Historical Review.

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