As for the nation’s Black and Amerindian populations who were in Argentina before this mass European immigration, many began to strategically identify as White if they could “pass” or to ...

no choice but to marry, cohabitate with or form relationships with European men ... explained that ”Black women in Argentina made concerted decisions to pass as White or Amerindian to ...

She wrote that the “idea of Argentina as a white nation” was ... that have been used to explain black disappearance. We cannot accept that it is just European immigration that whitened ...

She said that while a 2010 census seemed to confirm for many that Argentina was a White nation, showing that less than one percent of the country was Black, history suggests otherwise.