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Southern Cone country’s first moments, the
racism of the ruling classes and the
presumption of national whitening led to a
“forgetting” of the participation of blacks in
important national events, and lead to oblivion
or ignorance on national holidays in which
their actions were actually relevant. Freixa
also points out how on national censuses
blacks and mulattoes slowly went from being
numerically important to a minority, only to
become a memory of the past, finally. This is
supported by anthropologist Norberto Pablo
Cirio’s illustrative article “First SelfAdministered Census of Afro-Argentines of
Colonial Origin.” It explores censuses from
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