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Eduardo Rómulo Barrionuevo.
Anonymous photographer

Olga Norma País Espinosa. Anonymous
photographer

As conclusion
The research on Afro-Argentines are
expanding its interest toward the present,
because usually it reached the mid or, at
most, the late twentieth century. Also, the
recent history must be addressed, since the
different stages of the country have been
covered to a greater or lesser extent. In
2012 the Association Misibamba donated to
the Institute Space for Memory my report
on the Mirta Esther Montero´s case, jointly
with the case of her mother, Orfilia Rivero,
for preservation, study and unrestricted
dissemination (Cirio, 2012).
The detected cases can be matched to the
socio-historical structure of the AfroArgentine on two issues: the permanent
state of conceptual construction and the
partial, incomplete and ruinous sources.
As the identity is a constant process of selfacknowledge, the descendants of Africans
who are recognized today as AfroArgentine, Afro descent or Afro-Argentine

from the colonial trunk encrypted
themselves in such a way after an arduous
and silent brooding, the victims of state
terrorism did the same.
It's very hard to detect and then to
document these cases for keeping some
consistency by ordering what happened:
there are intermingled memories, identities
camouflaged under convenient nicknames
that eat away certain whether this is the
same person that rot away the certitude of
being talking about the same person. There
is also a shortage of sources, because they
were destroyed by the victims and / or
victimizers, in both cases to protect
themselves, and a deep silence among
survivors and witnesses because of fear,
distrust or irreproachable and genuine
desire to forget. In these experiences of
sordid reality, we write with what we can
get, but we write.

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