Abstract
Two old upper-class women discuss the news. One of the women has a newspaper, and visibly concerned, turns to her friend: “Have you seen this, Etelvina? Here they say that Argentina is the world’s black sheep and that its future is tinged with uncertainty.” 1 Etelvina’s reply expresses even more distress: “Do you see? Now that we are poor they call us ‘black’!” This comic strip, published by Sendra in the Argentine daily Clarín in May 2002, appropriately captured the way in which the anxieties of sectors of the Argentine middle and middle-upper classes vis-à-vis the 2001 crisis were crystallized through racial language. This often-neglected aspect of the crisis can be interpreted as a reaction from parts of Argentine society to the process of progressive socioeconomic decomposition that started in the late 1990s and culminated during 2001–2.
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Aguiló, I. (2014). Tropical Buenos Aires: Representations of Race in Argentine Literature during the 2001 Crisis and Its Aftermath. In: Levey, C., Ozarow, D., Wylde, C. (eds) Argentina Since the 2001 Crisis. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137434265_9
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