Stereotypes in Black

María de Lourdes Ghidoli is member of the Grupo de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos (GEALA) at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She is the author of Estereotipos en negro, the Spanish edition of this book, which won the Best Book in Latin American Visual Culture Studies at the Latin American Association in 2019.

• Introduction; Part I. Representations: 1. Servants of African origin: the stigma of servitude; 2. Rosas and an African invasion in Buenos Aires; 3. Grotesque representations: devils, buffoons, and distorted figures; 4. Portraits of the others; Part II. Self-Representations: 5. Biographies and portraits: between progress and affection; 6. The way of the artists: press and sociability; Part III. A Special Painting: 7. The faces of Bernardo de Monteagudo: the impossibility of a non-white hero.

'Ghidoli's book is more than an excellent work of art history. It is a cutting-edge intellectual, cultural, and social history of Argentine racial imaginaries, with Afro-Argentines at its center, that will speak to scholars of race and of the African Diaspora well beyond Argentina.' Paulina L. Alberto, Harvard University, and author of Black Legend: The Many Lives of Raúl Grigera and the Power of Racial Storytelling in Argentina