Afro-Descendants in Argentina and Uruguay
A concentrated focus on Montevideo and Buenos Aires
Interviews
Lea Geler is a renowned scholar at CONICET/IIEGE (Interdisciplinary Institute for Gender Studies) and of the Group of Afro-Latin American Studies at the University of Buenos Aires. Her research foci are Afro-descendants in Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century, formation of nation-states, racial categories, gender categories, Othering. In addition to her extensive collection of articles on the problems of Afro-descendants, she is the author of Andares negros, caminos blancos: AfroporteƱos. Estado y NaciĆ³n. Argentina a fines del siglo XIX. (Black walks, white roads: AfroporteƱos. State and Nation. Argentina in the late nineteenth century). Lea Geler is the co-editor of CartografĆas afrolatinoamericanas: Perspectivas situadas para anĆ”lisis transfronterizos (Afro-Latin American Cartography: Situated Perspectives on Transborder Analysis), and Actas de las Segundas Jornadas de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos del GEALA (Proceedings of the Second Conference of Afro-Latin American Studies of GEALA).
Lea Geler, PhD
George Reid Andrews is a Distinguished Professor of History. He has taught Latin American history at the University of Pittsburgh since 1981 and has written several books on black history in Latin America, including The Afro-Argentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900; Blacks and Whites in SĆ£o Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988; Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000; Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay; and Afro-Latin America: Black Lives, 1600-2000.
George Reid Andrews, PhD
This interview was conducted in Spanish.