A Strange Emblem for a (Not So) White Nation: La Morocha Argentina in the Latin American Racial Context, c. 1900-2015.

This article explores the origins of La morocha argentina as an unofficial national emblem, the personification of the quintessential Argentinean woman, from its emergence in the early twentieth century to the present. A typical character of vernacular popular culture, the Argentinean "morocha" is c...

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Published in:	Journal of Social History Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 386 - 411
Main Author:	ADAMOVSKY, EZEQUIEL
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press / USA Winter2016
Subjects:	Argentina Brubaker, Roger Women Ethnicity National emblems History of popular culture > 20th century Exceptionalism (Political science) Latin Americans
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost