censo

Siempre quise que hubiera más gente de ascendencia africana en Argentina, particularmente mujeres (si, me gustan, ¿y qué?).

Hoy salió esto en el Economist City Briefing:

Stand up and be counted

In April, a local university will take a census in parts of the capital and in the province of Santa Fe to help determine the number of Argentines of African descent. The project, funded by the World Bank, will be the first such exercise since 1887, when around 2% of the Buenos Aires population declared itself black. That figure had been much higher at the beginning of the century, due to the importation of African slaves by the Spanish colonial administration. At that time, almost a third of Buenos Aires's population was described as black.

There are many theories as to why Afro-Argentines have all but disappeared. Some historians reckon that most black men were sent to fight and die in wars against Paraguay and Brazil, and that the remaining black women married white men. Subsequent waves of immigration from Spain and Italy certainly swamped the country with plenty of white men. Others argue that the city's Africans were particularly vulnerable to epidemics, including an outbreak of yellow fever at the end of the 19th century, because of their impoverished living conditions. But some historians believe there are more blacks than have been officially acknowledged, and that their “disappearance” owes much to government attempts between 1880 and 1930 to “whiten” Argentine history. The new census aims to redress this.

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