As the author noted in his book, the population of the Afro-Argentines who obviously were in existence during the 1800s did not dwindle to nothing as many people described it. The mass of historical commentary on the Afro-Argentines' disappearance have explained the phenomena as the result of four main reasons. The first being that the Afro-Argentines had been drafted and then perished during the wars of the nineteenth century in large numbers. The second reason was because Afro-Argentine women were faced with the shortage of men of their own race, they turned to the European male immigrants as partners, also in hopes of producing lighter-skinned children who would have a chance of upward social mobility. The third explanation was that low birth rates and high mortality rates were especially pronounced in the Afro-Argentine communities because of their unsanitary living conditions and their inability provide for their young due to the lack of men and their low social status. The fourth reason was that slave

Argentina was one of the many nation states in pursuit of independence and, ultimately, sovereignty. It was committed to the achievement of freedom from colonialism and imperialism, and the right to a self-determining government that extended to politics, economics, territory, and people. Nevertheless, these goals did not lead to the liberty of all people in Argentina, nor were they every meant to do so. The path to Argentine sovereignty and the solidification of Argentine nationhood has been littered with appalling obstacles to the liberty of the colored people who had suffered numerous social injustices. Afro-Argentines were forced to end the injustice and discrimination that had followed them over the years. But being severely disadvantaged by the rules and regulations set by the colonials and now the new Argentine authorities, the only way to break out of their shell and this vicious cycle was to drastically alter their image, from black to trigueno to white.

Now in the hands of the very racist unitarians, they felt Argentina needed to become more "progressive" like the nations in western Europe and the United States. In order to become the greatest nation in South America, modernization was necessary. And the only way to achieve that is by encouraging vast European immigration into the country. Their goal was for the overwhelming numbers of European immigrants to infiltrate and overcome the "irredeemable inferiority of the subservient races" that doomed Argentina. Racial mixing thus inevitably became prevalent in the Argentine society.

Therefore, I conclude that the main cause for the so called disappearance of the Afro-Argentines had to do more with cultural prejudices and the reclassification of many blacks as triguenos than did misc

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