Back Afro-Argentinalılar Azerbaijani Afroamericans de l'Argentina Catalan Afroargentino Spanish آفریقایی-آرژانتینیها Persian Population noire en Argentine French אפרו-ארגנטינאים HE アフリカ系アルゼンチン人 Japanese Afro-argentinos Portuguese Afro Arjantinliler Turkish Người Argentina gốc Phi Vietnamese
 Proportion of African Argentines in each department as of the 2022 Argentine census | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 302,936 (2022 census)[1] 0.66% of the Argentina's population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Predominantly in the Greater Buenos Aires and in the Argentine Northwest | |
| Languages | |
| Predominantly Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism • Protestantism • Traditional | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
Afro-Argentines (Spanish: Afroargentinos) are Argentines of primarily Sub-Saharan African descent.[2] The Afro-Argentine population is the result of people being brought over during the transatlantic slave trade during the centuries of Spanish domination in the region[3][4] and immigration from Africa.[5]
During the 18th and 19th centuries they accounted for up to fifty percent of the population in certain cities,[6] and had a deep impact on Argentine culture. Some old theories held it that in the 19th century the Afro-Argentine population declined sharply due to several factors, such as the Argentine War of Independence (c. 1810–1818), high infant mortality rates, low numbers of married couples who were both Afro-Argentine, the War of the Triple Alliance, cholera epidemics in 1861 and 1864 and a yellow fever epidemic in 1871.[7]
Research in recent decades cites a strong racial intermixing with whites and indigenous peoples in the 18th and 19th centuries as the main reason for the decline of the black population in Argentina.[7] That mixing was promoted by governments of those times as a method to, in a first era, make non-whites (both indigenous and black people) racially closer to whites during the construction of a modern society, as they saw it; and in a second era, make them decline gradually through their "dilution" into a white majority that it was to become as such with the promotion of a mass immigration from Europe and Middle East that started to arrive since then (mid-19th century) until the 1940s.[8] At the same time, non-whites frequently sought to have offspring with whites as a way to make their racially mixed child escape from slavery in the colonial period, and later, from discrimination.
- ^ "Censo 2022". INDEC. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ "What it's like to be Black and Argentine". BBC News. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
- ^ Gates, Henry Louis. Black in Latin America. New York: New York UP, 2011. Page 2
- ^ Klein, Herbert S. African Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean. New York: Oxford UP, 1986. Print.
- ^ "African immigrants in Argentina". Archived from the original on 7 May 2020.
- ^ Mothershead, Sasha (2019). "Los vacíos y las ausencias: Una mirada sobre la presencia de los afrodescendientes en las clases de historia nacional en Buenos Aires, Argentina". Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection (in Spanish) (3227). School for International Training: 13.
- ^ a b Erika Denise Edwards (26 June 2018). "The making of a White nation: The disappearance of the Black population in Argentina". History Compass. Retrieved 14 May 2021.
- ^ Ocoró Luango, Anny (July 2010). "Los negros y negras en la Argentina: entre la barbarie, la exotización, la invisibilización y el racismo de Estado". La Manzana de la Discordia (in Spanish). 5 (2). Universidad del Valle: 48. ISSN 2500-6738. Retrieved 1 February 2023.
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