Black geo-graphies: the old black neighborhoods of the city of Buenos Aires (17th and 19th century)
Topics: Black Geographies
, Latin America
, Urban Geography
Keywords: Latin America, Buenos Aires, Black-African diasporas, Old black neighborhoods, Black geographies
Session Type: Virtual Paper Abstract
Day: Saturday
Session Start / End Time: 2/26/2022 08:00 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada)) - 2/26/2022 09:20 AM (Eastern Time (US & Canada))
Room: Virtual 80
Authors:
Beatriz Pereira Silva, University of São Paulo (Brazil)
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Abstract
Lélia Gonzalez, the important black Brazilian activist and intellectual, proposes the category of amefricanidade (amefricanity), which constitutes an ethnogeographic system of reference and represents the ancestral legacy of territorial formation of Amefrican society and emerges as a possibility to (re)signify the Americas by understanding the racial relations of the continent and the actions of black transatlantic and indigenous bodies in the structure of these countries. Keeping in mind Gonzalez’s position, it is possible to analyze the black-African diasporas in the city of Buenos Aires and the formation of old black neighborhoods.
The old black neighborhoods emerge at the turn of the 17th century, as a result of the compulsory arrival of Africans in the city of Buenos Aires. A priori, the enslaved went to the interior of the Spanish colonies, but some of them were purchased and became urban slaves, the majority becoming gain slaves in the urban porteño space.
From the bibliographic survey of authors that take up the black/racial theme in Argentina, it was possible to identify the location of the old black neighborhoods.
These neighborhoods were located in the port zone, close to the Porto Madero, which represents the initial occupation of the city. In this way, we can infer that these old black neighborhoods make up part of the historic formation of Buenos Aires and occupy a large area of what is today the Historic Casco and, in that period, the limits of the colonial city.
Black geo-graphies: the old black neighborhoods of the city of Buenos Aires (17th and 19th century)
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