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extinction of African descent, the most
common insults in the everyday speech
involve it, although we do not think
much about it. The mote blackhead
introduced the African descent into the
heart of the collective representations
during the mid-twenty century. And
black is still used in a derogatory and
encompassing manner, although the
phenotypic considerations are relegated
to a second place.
It should be added that expressions
more
recently used, as black (of the) head or
black shit, refer to immigrants from
both
the
neighboring
countries
(Paraguay and Bolivia) and the subSaharan diaspora. They are the most
xplebeian sectors (Solomianski, 2003:

33, 255-256; Picotti, 1998: 42, 47, 60).
In Buenos Aires´s imaginary, poverty
and blackness go hand in hand. Such an
association embraces various social
groups
(slum dwellers, immigrants from
neighboring countries, sub-Saharan
Africans, Afro-Latin Americans and
others). The claim of some superior
Whiteness marks the border of class
(and somehow of race too) and
continues to prevail, although the Afrodescendant presence implies a challenge
and always comes afloat, especially in
the discourse, due to a new and more
comprehensive identity (Frigerio, 2008:
81-82).

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