Hiding in plain sight : black women, the law, and the making of a white Argentine Republic / Erika Denise Edwards.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edwards, Erika Denise, 1980- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Legal status, laws, etc--Argentina--Córdoba (Province)--History.

Black people.

Women, Black--Argentina--Córdoba (Province)--History.

Women, Black.

Córdoba (Argentina : Province)--Race relations--History.

Córdoba (Argentina : Province).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2020]

Summary:

Winner of The Association of Black Women Historians 2020 Letitia Woods-Brown Award for the best book in African American Women's History and the 2021 Western Association of Women Historian's Barbara "Penny" Kanner Award 2021 Finalist for the Harriet Tubman Book Prize 2020 Finalist Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize​ Details how.

Contents:

Miscegenation, marriage, and manumission in Cordoba

Regulating and administering freedom in Cordoba

"Her best performance" : from slave to senora

"A woman of his class" : contested intermarriages

Maternity and the manumission process

Lessons of motherhood : the beginning of institutionalized whitening

Conclusion: Visualizing black invisibility.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8173-9265-3

OCLC:

1136577562