Mujeres, negras y argentinas: Articulaciones identitarias entre mujeres afrodescendientes de la ciudad de Santa Fe, Argentina.

This paper presents an anthropological approach to a group of black women of the city of Santa Fe (Argentina). The aim is to describe some of the thoughts and actions undertaken by them to make public the historical connection between sectors of the popular classes of Santa Fe and the African and Afro-descendant presence in Argentina, and more specifically on the Litoral (northern coast) In particular, from their self-affirmation as "women, black and Argentine", I will begin with the ethnographic description of the oldest institution in the country exposed to afro-descendant issues, and a personal history of one of the women within it. Then were will be an analysis of performances linked to the practice of "candombe" (a form of ritual dance), in order to understand the recurrence of images and aesthetics that refer to the colonial regime -in transition to a republican one, keys in the production of a racial-sexual stereotype about the black woman, and a school imaginary crystallizing blackness, and the image most closely associated with an African and Afro-descendant presence in the country. It will conclude with some thoughts and questions about the specific local conditions that produced the identity of these women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]