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a closely bound mall group dedicated to
their efforts to hide their distinctive
features to the larger society. This has
backfired: one the one hand, this reinforced the rhetoric about their disappearance; on the other, it allowed for
the preservation of popular traditions
that would have been loss otherwise. As
a result of different crises the country
underwent, and the growing rise in the
city’s cost of living, Afro-Porteños began to move to places like Gran Buenos
Aires at the