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Regarding having been registered as Afro-descendants in the 2010 Census, the
results were shocking and dismaying: 100% said they had not, as they received
Form B.

Some interpretations
Given the limited scope and simplicity
of our census, we were only able to
report on the small universe we polled,
and abstained from comparing it to
others and project any representativity
on a national level. Recalling the
metaphor about the glass of water,
numbers do not speak for themselves,
especially if they are analyzed using
erroneous suppositions that distort
reality. But, interpreting results can help
understand social dynamics of AfroArgentines of Colonial Origin. Place of
birth was recorded as completely as
possible, even with respect to the

neighborhoods of those born in the City
of Buenos Aires. This allow us to
update, at least in part, the origin of
Afro-descendants in the hypothesis that
the San Telmo and Monserrat
neighborhoods, which are held in the
popular imagination
and certain
academic
literature
as
“Afro
neighborhoods.,” but have ceased being
representative of this a long time ago:
our census result was zero. Nevertheless,
we can state that Carlos César Lamadrid
lives in Monserrat with his family, and
was born in Constitución. Similarly, five
of the 83 Afro-porteños were born in
Recoleta, a neighborhood that was not

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