Table of Contents

Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Exceptionalism
Migration
Space
Multiculturalism
Structure and texts
Chapter 1: Neoliberalism and its crisis
Chapter 2: The historical construction of whiteness in Argentina
Chapter 3: Facing darkness in the literature of the crisis
Literary production and the crisis
`Asterix el encargado'
La Villa
Cucurto
Chapter 4: `A Bolivian walks into a bar...': Race in New Argentinian Cinema
The renovation of Argentinian cinema
Bolivia
Copacabana
Chapter 5: Amerindians, fashion models and picketeers
Huellas
La conquista del desierto
Grupo de Arte Callejero (GAC)
Chapter 6: Cumbia villera and the new racialised marginality
Cumbia music in Argentina
The boom of cumbia villera
Racialising the villero youth
Afterword
Works cited

About the Author

The proposed readership for this publication consists of undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working on contemporary Argentinian culture and race in Latin America. It can also appeal to scholars who are researching on neoliberalism and crisis in a broader sense. Given that it is written in a simple way and it does not make heavy use of quoting or theory, it could appeal to a wider readership outside academia.

Reviews

"Ignacio Aguiló's study is a major contribution to an emerging scholarship on race in Argentina. Built on solid research, The Darkening Nation presents a compelling account of the ways in which Argentine culture dealt with racial anxieties and struggled to redefine nationhood in the aftermath of the 2001 crisis."--Professor Ezequiel Adamovsky, University of Buenos Aires/University of San Martín