The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context
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Chapter I:  Essay I: Aesthetic Blackness in the Creative Literature of the Latin/Hispanic Reality
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its denial of ever having had an African presence can be seen in the following statement, translated from the article in reference:

Socialism arrived in Rio de la Plata long before European immigration. It was the black community of Buenos Aires, liberated under the National Constitution of 1853…ex-slaves, who in 1858 offered the first ideas and doctrines of a utopian socialism. This was six years before the International Workers’ Association was created in Europe in 1864, and spearheaded by Marx, Engels and the anarchist Miguel Bakunin.
On 18 April 1858, a black intellectual, Lucas Fernandez, created and directed a weekly journal called The Proletariat, with the purpose of addressing class interests, i.e. the interest of the ‘colored class.’
Argentine leftists have some doubt about these black pioneers, erased from history and from memory. (Corbiere, “El genocidio en la Argentina”)

While Argentina has aggressively attempted to rid its memory of all vestiges of the slave society that helped to propel its economy forward, most other American countries seem to have accepted their Afro Latin reality, albeit reluctantly. Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Mexico, and Chile still are being coerced, as the result of ongoing and published research, to admit to an African presence. For them, the possibility of denying a connection to a black heritage is more tenuous now than ever before. In those countries, as in most of the Diaspora, the African has left a mark where his or her person was received that is like “cables of perdurable toughness,” to adapt a phrase from a translation of Shakespeare's Iago (France 77). For example, the concept of the tango as a stylized dance form is ingrained as strongly in the national psyche of Argentina as the Rio de la Plata is as a symbol of that country's topography. Further, most researchers have determined that tango is a word and a dance of Yoruba origin, and thus readily accept its African roots. Many in Argentina with Eurocentric cultural inclinations vehemently reject this provenance.